Nine-hour bus ride to see a friend of mine I'd neglected him as the year had found me obsessed with my own life I wasn't there for his wedding or the birth of his first child And these mistakes I'd long regret as I never make them right And It's been seven years swallowed lord how the time has pa**ed me by I've written this song some three times, though it never saw daylight So I will sing this for your daughter, for myself and for your wife 'Cause those you've loved and loved you, hold you still on sleepless nights Though you've gone into the dark, lord knows we will soon follow Life is short and shorter still with all these cold and rainy days We have few years left I'm told before we're all resting in the soil So I'll carry you with me through sun or snow And all my guilt lay undercovers It was like sleeping on nails and gla** Your pa**ing made such tremors It felt as if the earth shook from the loss of the man Though I relive our tours and drunken nights with a shiver and a smile My blood runs cold with the ringing phone and Christine on the line Though you've gone into the dark, lord knows we will soon follow Life is short and shorter still with all these cold and rainy days We have few years left I'm told before we're all resting in the soil So I'll carry you with me through sun or snow So I'll carry you with me through sun or snow So I'll carry you with me through sun or snow So I'll carry you with me through sun or snow