February Rain - Mark Kozelek, Ben Boye, Jim White

You planted tulips, you would never see bloom

You had a baby you’d never seen turn two

You got sickness all throughout your bones

You went to the hospital and you never came home

You died today, fourteen years ago

And I still think about you every day, you know

Every scratch on my hardwood floor

Is carved by the claws of that big fat tabby cat of yours

I just walked to the water and I thought of you

And all of the beautiful places that you introduced me to

And I looked at the bridge and the fog hanging over

I thought about how many times we drove over it

Into Mill Valley, driving past San Quentin

That once housed my distant cousin

On the way to Fairfax

To spend time with your father and your mother

Listening to some music or the other

Cat Stevens' Tea for the Tiller

Neil Young’s Harvest Moon and Joni Mitchell’s Blue

And Leo Kottke, I never dug him but I put up with him for you

Your passing is tragic and it fucked everyone up who knew you

Very very badly

At the time we were hijacked by so much pain that we couldn’t see

But in your 34 years, you accomplished so many many things

You dated your favorite musician

You were a great painter and you sold some paintings over in Britain

You married a man who became the father of your daughter

You lived near the ocean most of your life

You loved the smell of salt water

You had two best friends who loved you very very so

And I sing a song for you everywhere I go

I wish I could call you now but I can’t and I’m sorry

You always made me smile when I got mopey

I was yours and you were mine

And my god, we were good together but we were only 29

But my career was getting busier and busier

And I had so much on my mind

I knew it was best to set you free

I knew there was someone who could

Give you things I couldn’t give you

He gave you a ring and a beautiful girl

And what could I give you?

I was traveling so much around the world

So here it is, fourteen years since I last saw you

I hear the broom sweeping across the floor

Just like in the song «Harvest Moon»

The February rain is relentless and I’m lost in thoughts of you

And the rain is relentless today and I’m lost in thoughts of you

And the rain is relentless today and I’m lost in thoughts of you

And the rain is relentless today just like when I last saw you

And the rain is relentless tonight and I’m lost in thoughts of you

And the rain is relentless tonight and I’m lost in thoughts of you