Sweetness lived beyond the night, just behind my door.

A love you see, a friend to me, and everything more.

Once a child, twice the time, her laughs and tears soon became mine.

Run across the fields and days; “forever” we’d say.

Sweetness played the momma’s hand, I’d pretend the man.

Skipped the roadside, played the fieldside fantasies.

We had raced through school, to laughin’ fools; time was ours at every turn.

Up and under, rolled like thunder, we’d love to burn.

Na Na Na……..

Lassie comes to lady, sweetness comes to sorrow.

Faster than a stolen glance, the day becomes the morrow.

School days soon are family ways, the fire of youth is left in embers.

Sweetness swears she can still, still remember.

Chance and distance seperate us.

Somewhere comes the night.

In those eyes that once were candy, something just ain’t right.

A whisper here, a shout in fear, a husband’s voice can soon be heard.

Sweetness leaves me wonderin’ with no word.

Na Na Na…..

Shotgun blast, and soon the past is shattered with the night husband’s dead beyond the bed.

Sweetness out of sight, days of youth distort the truth.

I while away each aging hour, wonderin’ how sweetness turns to sour.

Sweetness lived, all there is, hurt on fire, no desire.

Sweetness goes, time sure knows, years and miles, steal the child.