Surely You Know

written by Gary Noland  (July 2004)

I saw you in a photograph/ You were younger than when you had passed/And though I didn’t say goodbye/ I can say I loved you/ The pipes of peace began to chime/ But the winds of war blew in that time/And as your life began to fade/ The shame to bear was mine// Surely you know, I loved you/ Surely you know, I still do/ Surely you know, I loved you/ Shirley you know, I still do/And as the tears began to fall/ The reaper came to pay a call/And as he took you by the hand/ There’s a lesson in life I now understand/ After all the words have failed/ And memories have your heart impaled/ In this world your fate is sealed/ But through the Lord your heart is healed//  Surely you know, I loved you/ Surely you know, I still do/ Surely you know, I loved you/ Shirley you know, I still do