She'd been hollowed out, her need unfulfilled
With a look in her eyes, she could never disguise
A life since college woven from silk, and pretty lies
She rode the horse, waited patiently for another ride
Dying before she got a chance, I swear that I tried
In the cold basement where un-housed people met
Doing things safely, doing them well not impossible
Half of the people there would die before the spring
Other half left hoping, on Afghan magic to save them
That kind of thinking isn't real, they needed a hit
My friend stared into eyes of judgement, smiling
Over quickly, she refused help, leapt from a bridge
Only her mother and I went to a memorial service
We'd both cried, thinking it was a hard way to live
A harder way to die, we hoped for peace within
Before she left, before she made us forever hurt
The pain inside and outside, impossible to fix
With a look in her eyes, she could never disguise
A life since college woven from silk, and pretty lies
She rode the horse, waited patiently for another ride
Dying before she got a chance, I swear that I tried
In the cold basement where un-housed people met
Doing things safely, doing them well not impossible
Half of the people there would die before the spring
Other half left hoping, on Afghan magic to save them
That kind of thinking isn't real, they needed a hit
My friend stared into eyes of judgement, smiling
Over quickly, she refused help, leapt from a bridge
Only her mother and I went to a memorial service
We'd both cried, thinking it was a hard way to live
A harder way to die, we hoped for peace within
Before she left, before she made us forever hurt
The pain inside and outside, impossible to fix
