How I Knew Her-Nataly Dawn

[ti:How I Knew Her] [ar:Nataly Dawn] [al:How I Knew Her] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How I Knew Her - Nataly Dawn [00:07.24]I wish you had written me a letter [00:10.36] [00:12.36]I wish you had told me before [00:15.69] [00:18.07]Before your mind was too old [00:21.65] [00:28.13]'Cause I would have liked to have known you better [00:31.22] [00:33.35]Like my daughter knows me now [00:36.64] [00:39.12]I would have liked some answers [00:42.50] [00:49.49]I would have liked some answers [00:53.42] [00:58.51]But now no one can say [01:01.13]What it meant to see your daddy die [01:04.80]Under that tractor on that black hill [01:08.42] [01:09.09]How you painted your pretty face [01:12.62]And did your hair each day [01:15.37]Before you fetched my father's pills [01:19.27] [01:28.95]You could have done a few things better [01:32.24] [01:33.80]You didn't have to be so strong [01:37.00] [01:39.68]You might have been the answer [01:43.16] [01:50.08]You might have been the answer [01:53.87] [01:59.36]But now no one can say [02:01.92]How we would've all turned out [02:05.57]If you had told it like you saw it [02:09.16] [02:09.91]You knew how to smile [02:12.10] [02:12.62]To keep the rest from finding out [02:16.20]What was hanging in our closet [02:19.67] [02:29.59]We still say you're closer to Jesus [02:33.61] [02:34.54]Than anyone we've ever known [02:37.64] [02:40.22]Oh what a cross to carry [02:43.85] [02:50.64]'Cause you did everything to please us [02:54.26] [02:55.50]And now you're sitting in a home [02:58.91] [03:01.42]I bet you'd like some answers [03:05.36] [03:12.01]I bet you'd like some answers [03:15.54] [03:42.12]But now no one can sing [03:44.86]The third verse of that hymn you played [03:48.27]On that old organ in the parlor [03:51.07] [03:52.36]But if you let me I'd fill your ears [03:56.33]With all the love you gave [03:59.02]And then you'd ask me how I knew her [04:02.38] [04:03.05]Oh I like to think that I did [04:06.80]Because each day she seems [04:09.41]A little closer in the mirror [04:12.18] [04:15.09]But we all know you're gone [04:17.23] [04:18.15]And no one really knows you now [04:21.67]Did you not want us to remember