Why

Written by：Allen Shamblin/Robert Mathes

It must have been a place so dark you couldn't feel the light

Reaching for you through that stormy cloud

Now here we are gathered in our little home town

This can't be the way you meant to draw a crowd

Oh why that's what I keep asking

Was there anything I could have said or done

Oh I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul

God only knows what went wrong

And why you'd leave the stage in the middle of a song

Now in my mind I keep you frozen as a seventeen year old

Rounding third to score the winning run

You always played with passion no matter what the game

When you took the stage you shined just like the sun

Oh why that's what I keep asking

Was there anything I could have said or done

Oh I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul

God only knows what went wrong

And why you'd leave the stage in the middle of a song

Now the oak trees are swaying in the early autumn breeze

The golden sun is shining on my face

The tangled thoughts I hear a mockingbird sing

This whole world really ain't that bad of a place

Oh why there's no comprehending

And who am I to try to judge or explain

Oh but I do have one burning question

Who you told you life wasn't worth the fight

They were wrong they lied

Now you're gone and we cried

'Cause it's not like you to walk away in the middle of a song

Your beautiful song

Your absolutely beautiful song