Fond Farewell lyrics

And after the funeral service is over

A seat in sobering shock takes hold

Where reality seeps in so slowly

The body stilled reassures death

That mortals fear, or pray for it

Here, in a solemn salute confiding

The smiles and smerks of ago

Amid showers of tears quietly

A place where follies and faults

Ride the swirling seas of emotion

Perhaps a tune, a song, a shot

That reassures us they were

So then someone might miss us

Even oncein passing, or in life

Forgiving, but not forgetting them

So that in the blue sky or the wind

The treasures of life's experience

Those precious stones we touch

Will shine on after we have gone

Our name will be then our deeds

Tomorrows will come to awaken

And they will live again anew

As long as we breathe them life

Stones of souls standing sentries

Eternally precious in our hearts