I posted the lyrics to Mabye be Collective Soul when my friend Larry died in 2003. It isn’t any easier to post it for baby F tonight. But, as the song says, “I have not the words to write, a farewell to you tonight.”

The sky now divides
To bring you back into the fold
Welcome home
Still my need to recognize
Any comfort you may show
Only grows
Guess I’ll learn to accommodate
While my heart just sits and waits
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

Where am I to take refuge
When the storms of pain release
Shelter me
This blessedness of life
Sometimes brings me to my knees
I call on Thee
I have not the words to write
A Farewell to you tonight
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

I know hearts are weeping
While your voice is now singing
On high, angel on high

I have not the words to write
A Farewell to you tonight
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

–E. Rowland

Tomorrow the Citizens can carry on. Tonight, they weep with Brian and Amanda.