Keith Hampton: Songs & Lyrics
Bernadine
(Keith Hampton)
2002-06-01
Keith Hampton/BMI
from HOPEFIRE (2002)
bernadine, i took a drive
to your house down by the lake
in the afternoon of a summer sky
all your sons and daughters
sisters and your brothers took the stage
we ate and drank your memory
in rosy clothes and cleo laine
years ago and miles between now
the teachers and the teenagers
and everyone who loved you
just like me
we've come to comfort one another
you'll know us by the lack of light in our eyes
and when the ceremony fades
something still remains
it's the words on the page
for you
oh bernadine i left my home
i still come around and it's bittersweet
when the best of friends i used to know
have scattered all away
like the tender dust
on the wings of a honeybee
but i'm still sitting in your junkyard sofa
writing down the bones
of love and harmony
and the ceremony fades
but something still remains
it's the words on the page
and bernadine
bernadine
steady now
steady now
hold steady
ceremonies fade
but bernadine remains
in the words on the page
bernadine
bernadine