This one goes out to my friend.

[coloradodem2005]

If Only I could have prevented you from taking your life. This applies to me and all of us who knew you. There are parts of this song that seem appropriate. I hope that this says it well. Don't get mad at me if you feel it does not.


The Pass
by Rush

proud swagger out of the schoolyard
waiting for the world's applause
rebel without a conscience
martyr without a cause

static on your frequency
electrical storm in your veins
raging at unreachable glory
straining at invisible chains

and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
can't face life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me

it's not as if this barricade
blocks the only road
it's not as if you're all alone
in wanting to explode

someone set a bad example
made surrender seem all right
the act of a noble warrior
who lost the will to fight

and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
done with life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be

no hero in your tragedy
no daring in your escape
no salutes for your surrender
nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?


Rush, Presto, 1989

[HuckleB]

1. Here's another. I hope you don't mind.

May peace be with you, your friend and his family.

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Like you I've been hurt, seen my face in the dirt,
but I never reacted like you
The last time we met,
you seemed so upset,
when you left town you did not say bye
Then I heard you'd been seen way down in Eugene,
working as a factory slave
And though the life that you took came from no storybook,
you spent it before it was saved.

On the fourth of July
Is a good day to die
They'll celebrate each year
Your independence from here.

If you only had just a glimmer of hope,
then I know you'd have done some great things
But you tossed out your gift,
and it's making me wish,
I'd been there when you found yourself down
But you turned to no one
but a bullet and a gun,
and the bang blended in with the day
And I sit here and think,
it still hurts me to think
of the sad songs we used to play.

On the fourth of July
See the sparks in the sky
When you're sick of the trying
and you're tired of the crying
Then the fourth of July
Is a good day to die
They'll celebrate each year
Your independence from here...

Fourth of July by Pete Droge, 1994

[Pachamama]

2. This made me so sad...my brother tried to take his life last month...

...fortunately, he survived....I think his soul is crying out for help and instead this screwed up medical/psychiatric system of ours just wants to "up the meds" when quite frankly its most likely the meds that drove him over the edge to take that step many of us have faced at one time in our lives, but didn't take to the final step.

I am sorry for yours and his/her family's loss and that his soul didn't have the opportunity to find peace here in our physical presence...hopefully he/she has found that...

:cry: