07/24/2026
Tomorrow it will be 17 years since I lost my best friend Shealyn to su***de, I wrote this song about her and I love it so much, but I have yet to perform it without crying, it would mean a lot to me if you'd listen. There is a ten second loop of her laughter in the background if you listen closely
https://youtu.be/553FggHluWE?si=QFkn7l3j1tENoslJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tMwrpaxJrx1iAChdVJhwS?si=eb79fe9212dd4ec2
The Girl that Got Away
It seems these days
I can barely remember
The Summers before
The weight of the World
Fell on my shoulders
Now I spend all my Mays
Chasing daylight savings
Praying for Winter
Now the sky
is just not as blue
Theres half as many few true
As there used to be
Without you
Without you
Summer's never gonna be the same
without the girl that got away
if I had one wish
I'd take Her
but since that Summer
She's been gone
All day I could replay
The ten second tape
Of her laughing
For just about as long
I almost forget
All about what happened
Now I spend all my late July's
Under a crying tree
Imagining the girl who got away
on Afterglow Beach
Summer's never gonna be the same
without the girl that got away
if I had one wish
I'd take Her
but since that Summer
She's been gone
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