Why didn't you call?

My phone's always on

Why didn't you call?

Before you got gone



And I can't say for certain

What I would have said

But now I am helplessly

Silent instead



There's a hole in my heart

And in my head, why didn't you call?



Why didn't you say something

On the last time we met?

Why didn't you say something?

There's always hope left



And I can't say for the certain

What I would have done

But I can't do anything

Now that you're gone

And it kills me to think

That for a second you felt alone



Now, you can measure the mark

Of a man on the day that he dies

In the mixture of memory and wreckage

That he leaves behind



And I know you were carrying too much weight

On the evening when you slipped away

But I loved you like a brother man

And I never really had a chance to say



So at half past nine each evening,

I'll think of my friend

And at half past nine I'll remember

That you were better than your end



Because I too have stood up on that ledge

But I know you'd have pulled me back down from the edge

And I let you down in your darkness

I wasn't there



So I remember you making a hole

Through the kids in the crowd

And I remember you lifting me up

Each time I fell down



And I'll glance at the barrier

When I'm watching the band

And I'll expect to see you there

Stood on the footstand



But I guess I will see someone else

That's when I'll whisper to myself

Brother I miss you like hell