If you go away on a Summer day..

If you go away on a Summer day.

1- Once we loved the Wisconsin wild river,

and we sought quiet places to hold hands and I would steal kisses.

We adored the torrent water and we tried to follow the river,

to secret places where lovers could dance nude with the sun in view.

I remember you demanded strong whiskey and the hard metal songs.

We lived for the day and we didn’t care about tomorrow.

We didn’t want to live forever.

2-  The twilight of my life is here.

I have seen everything and I have seen nothing.

I was wise and I was foolish. I preferred the days of Tomfoolery.

I have known anger and now I know kindness.

Tonight I whispered a sweet name.

Cathy, beautiful Cathy. I remember your last words to me.

You told me. Soldier, if I went away on a Summer day, I would never return.

I told the night and the Wisconsin river.

Dear Cathy, I remember you and I know.

Time is a ugly thief.

I learn too late.

You can’t return to the place you left from.

The city, the river don’t change. We do.

Tonight I drink whiskey in Iron Mountain, Michigan.

I told the night,

I need a kind woman, I need to laugh again.

I need to smile again.

I told the face in the tavern mirror.

The saddest thing we can do,

is die alone.

Coyote