Best Friends

Bobby Lee and me

We grew up together.

We were always the best of friends.

Swore our kinship in blood,

Fought the world side by side

Never thinking our friendship would end.

Taught to love God and country;

They were worth fighting for.

So, we joined up together,

Headed off to war.

Made the best of all the worst times

And finally made it back home.

 

But through it all, 

No matter how hard the fall,

If we needed someone to lean on

We knew just who we could call,

One who’d be there til the end,

‘Cause we were best friends.

 

Carried each other through thick and thin.

Marched all the way through Hell

And made it back again.

Now I have to carry him one last time

And go it alone.

Ashes to ashes, back to Mother Earth.

Praying for angels to kindle rebirth,

Lost in the memory

As I carry him home.

 

But through it all, 

No matter how hard the fall,

If we needed someone to lean on

We knew just who we could call,

One who’d be there til the end,

‘Cause we were best friends.