Too Soon Gone

Where do you go when your darling girls are gone

Taken both on one black night?

How do your rise in the morning when you know

There’s no end of grief in sight?

What comfort lives when your daughters live no more

And you see no sign of light?

CHORUS

Just say their names and sing a song

And somewhere, somehow, they’ll sing along

Jillian was twenty-one years old

Lindsay was just nineteen

Shooting stars that brought such joy

Laughing, dancing, playing coy

Jillian and Lindsay

Too soon gone

Who gave you strength to stand tall and eulogize

So ill yourself, but still you tried

To comfort those who came to comfort you

Wife and son there by your side

Shattered but brave, just a family holding tight

While rocks and stones broke down and cried

CHORUS

David - lead vocal and rhythm guitar

Jay Byrd - lead guitar, backing vocal

Miles Lieder - drums

Jim Robeson - bass, backing vocal

Shamus McRobee - accordion

Bill Starks - organ, piano

Written for my friend Lew, whose daughters died in a terrible house fire on Long Island, and for Lew’s wife Alisa and his son Zach. Lew died of cancer not long after eulogizing his daughters.