Remember me when I'm gone as a friend Not as a brother, father, or lover If my epitaph reads friend, in the end I'll be proud of time spent, when I ascend
Starlight blind mine eyes this night let me not perceive the emptiness of days morning pray hold back your dawning to light the place my love no longer lays
Soft breeze if thou would but please deaden my ears to the silence all around gentle rain come once more disguise my pain and wash away the memories yet bound
Fitful dreams replaced by nightmares evil screams dumb now my impotent tongue let me be oh unrelenting misery and let at last my heartstrings be unstrung