Cookie Crumbs (Lyrics)

You left us without any answers, my friend.
Just tears and broken smiles.
That slow walk up to your casket Sunday
Weighed on me as though I'd run miles.
'I'm sorry' now seems pointless and weak
No apology will bring you back whole.
I'll remember you as you were before
The body wasn't you, it was empty and cold.

Chorus:
Cookie, I loved you so much in life
I'll love you now just as much in death
You may be gone from the physical world,
But you'll live on in every deep breath.
I don't know what pushed you over the edge
Why you took your life and chose to run
We don't have the answers but we have memories
We lost the Cookie but never the crumbs.

I didn't believe it when I first heard:
the Cookie I knew wouldn't commit suicide.
You always told me it was a coward's way out.
What made you change that beautiful mind?
You hugged me that morning and said 'I love you'
and I didn't notice anything was amiss.
And now thinking back to the day that you died:
Should I have felt the goodbye in your kiss?

Chorus:
Cookie, I loved you so much in life
I'll love you now just as much in death
You may be gone from the physical world,
But you'll live on in every deep breath.
I don't know what pushed you over the edge
Why you took your life and chose to run
We don't have the answers but we have memories
We lost the Cookie but never the crumbs.

Chorus:
Cookie, I loved you so much in life
I'll love you now just as much in death
You may be gone from the physical world,
But you'll live on in every deep breath.
I don't know what pushed you over the edge
Why you took your life and chose to run
We don't have the answers but we have memories
We lost the Cookie but never the crumbs.

We don't have the answers, but we have memories.
We lost you, Cookie, but never your crumbs.

Copyright 2009 S. Sieglaff

**dedicated to Richard Blais Wilson, AKA Cookie. October 15, 1992 - November 11, 2009