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I'll Miss You

from Terra Firma by Our Twilight Pastime

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My Aunt Joyce passed away in 2005. This song is in dedication to her. RIP

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It’s strange the way that grief works:
I keep thinking of your smile.
It seemed so limitless, like you were
making the best of life.
I thought about your Christmas gifts,
and how you always sent them early
and how you taped every ridge
so that they wouldn’t open in the mail.

So when I heard the news
it was like I had never stopped dreaming last night,
’cause it seemed impossible to think
you’d taken your own life.

I remembered not too long ago
you had sent me a birthday card,
and I wanted to read it again after I heard
that you were gone,
so I dug through the clutter
that always builds up on my desk,
and inside you wrote:
“it was great getting to see you at Tony’s wedding,”
and I feel the same.
Then you apologized for the card being a little late,
but please don’t worry, Aunt Joyce,
‘cause this “thank you” is the same.

And underneath your card
I noticed some more mail that I had.
My mom must have put it there,
and I never got around to reading it yet.
It was a credit card bill I was waiting for
and a CD I had ordered;
and it’s like you’re still here:
keeping me responsible with care,
and wrapping your Christmas gifts early
in the last thing that you wrote to me–
under a big fonted “Happy Birthday,”
in cursive, you wrote:
“Love, Aunt Joyce.”

Well here’s that “thank you” that I never got to give
(I’ll miss you, Aunt Joyce).

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from Terra Firma, released March 1, 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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