It was a night along time ago, when I was told
That everything was over, you have passed away
The last time I saw you, you were old and tired
But your whole life, you held your head high
The clouds in the sky sail by
Your life is over, your soul is free
And when everything went wrong, you were at a man's house
Who laid in bed, and held his hed up high
I went here on earth, with ashes in my hand
The steps, to another country
Something new will come from everything that died
I stood at your grave and held my head high
I left my home nearly 30 years ago
I went forward and back
Between the stage and the dressing room
Too much has been said, and too much has been forgotten
But none of it got to me
And I held my head up high
Now I'm standing the room I lived in before
I was someone else, behind a closed door
I was 17, I was the craziest person I knew
When I went out the door and held my head high
You can only love and lose
There will always things you won't get to do
Follow your heart, five words that I bought
You can only lose and keep your head held high