i heard that death had finally come down to shake your hand i knew from what you’d told me that you two were good friends i wasn’t ready for your light to go out tonight you left me all alone without a clue in the world because you showed me i could cut it where before i had just said fuck it getting sober, making music, even growing out my beard you showed me how to live and now you’ve disappeared i haven’t heard yet how it happened but i already know how it happened the same idea crossed my mind something like a thousand times but your rhythm and verse helped save me from that curse how i’ll miss you david berman everybody’s favorite broken-hearted hermit we’ll always have, your records and songs now that you’re gone i guess the world’s just worse off i got a ticket in my pocket to go and see you next week but now you’ve gone and gone away from me the pain in my heart is nothing like what you felt it’s just that i gotta figure how to live without you now and when people sing in tribute all the praises you’d so often rebuke i hope you’re listening up in heaven not worried anymore about getting any better you showed me humor in depression you showed me giving up once wasn’t permanently fucked you were the party bard and a ship to wreck now i’m crying in my kitchen cause the shock is too much now there’s a big bald spot left on my lonely heart i’ll miss the scowling and joking and your smile and your art at times the closest thing to a dad that maybe i ever had how i’ll miss you david berman everybody’s favorite broken-hearted hermit we’ll always have, your records and songs now that you’re gone i guess the world’s just worse off