Grief Rehearsal

Music and Lyric by Dennis Davison

I had you crashing just to test my sorrow

You’re gone today though you’ll be here tomorrow

You have died one thousand times

Only in my mind

Grief rehearsal, practicing to be sad

Grief rehearsal, preparing so the shock won’t seem so bad

Believing you’re going before you’re gone

And turning your lights out while you’re still on

I watched you suffer, ‘til I was distracted

Through repetition, I hardly reacted

I have tried to be immune

To your fatal tune

Grief rehearsal, practicing to be sad

Grief rehearsal, preparing so the shock won’t seem so bad

Believing you’re going before you’re gone

And turning your lights out while you’re still on

I’ll catalogue memories

While you’re still here with me

But I’ll prepare for when you leave

Practicing to grieve

Grief rehearsal