Like a dying beast the truck lies

Turned over on the driver's side

I want to ask if anyone survived

But the cops are there and they wave me by

Had it been easier to leave your side

I would have been here on this corner

When the truck drove by

I would have been here much faster

Had some snow angel not slowed my drive

And I say, how's a yellow line

enough protection in this world today?

One day you're alive

and then you take a long ride tomorrow

How can you know?

Just keep your eyes on the white line

And drive on blind

At seventeen she falls in love,

He promises he is drug free

One year later she gets a test,

And she finds out she's got HIV

You cannot call the end of time

Only how you'll live, not when you'll die

At twenty-eight, Olympic gold

He dies on the rink of heart failure

And I say, how's good health a promise,

enough protection in this world today?

You cannot worry too much,

put your seatbelt on and turn the radio up

How can you know? Just say

"I love you" twice and drive on blind

Focus on the small things

Not what you get but what you give

You cannot tell how you'll die,

Only how you'll live,

In the small things

First words, Daffodils in Spring

By the sweet and the tender, only how we'll live