Sailor

You won't remember the day we met
I always will how could I forget
You were staring at me from a photograph
And you told us to dance to the beat of a drum
I could feel my head explode
I could feel my blood run cold

Cause you were the father we never had
You made it OK to be different
You had no fear to jump and glide
To embrace the dark with open eyes
You showed us that things never stay the same
That everything goes while nothing remains
And change is constant like a dynamo
It's time to move on when things go slow

The moment you knew that your time was up
Was when they found a blackstar in your lung
Yet you couldn't keep what you had inside
Had to release for those you'd soon leave behind

I'll always remember the day you left
A moment of pain I should never forget
Your departure made grown men weep
The void you've left is wide and deep, wide and deep, wide and deep

Cause you were the father we never had
You made it OK to be different
You had no fear to jump and glide
To embrace the dark with open eyes
You showed us that things never stay the same
That everything goes while nothing remains
And change is constant like a dynamo
It's time to move on when things go slow

A painter, a poet, a writer a priest
A father, a brother, a god and a beast
A paragon, a prophet, an addict, a thief
A man, a machine, a liar, the chief