SONG: You Went Ahead (For Roby Duke)

I maintain a web site for my career as a singer-songwriter. I have just updated a featured there called Song of the Month. For October, I posted a song written for my dear, departed friend Roby Duke. The song is called "You Went Ahead". Click HERE and then on the "Song of the Month" link in the menu bar at left.

YOU WENT AHEAD (For Roby Duke)
Written by Bob Bennett
January 4, 2008
© 2008 Bright Avenue Songs
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You went ahead
It does not seem fair
I’m still here
And you are there
I keep my place
In this long line
Of those who love you
And are left behind

I’m sad for now
But that will not always be
I cry for you
But, my good friend,
It’s mostly for me

You went ahead
You had to look
You skipped all those pages
To the end of the book
You get to go
I have to stay
You see the sunrise
Of the endless day

But deep in the night time
I lay my head down
To wake up to a world
Where you are not around

Cause you went ahead
You went ahead of me
You went ahead