Joshua from In Relation by Cassia Hardy

Showed up a week early to your funeral.
Came with sixty spring rolls.

After the shock wore off
and the tears dried up, I asked

would it be so bad
to imagine your laugh?

I wonder what’s gonna happen
to your cameras,
or those new songs with Hannah?

Those old passive conversations
won’t reveal,
so I’m stuck out in the present
searching for you still.

It comes from love,
best I can now,
far beyond all transaction,

there’s nothing else to do
but hold who’s left.

Went to see your pictures at the gallery
where the prints all sold out.

I wasn’t there in time
to claim that prize.
To know no one will
ever let you go again
feels right.

It comes from love,
all I have now,
far beyond all transaction.

Comes from love,
all I have now,
resides with all you gave to me,

well there’s nothing else to do
but hold who’s left.
So hold who’s left.

• Alternative
• Treaty 6
• amiskwaciy
• indie rock
• pop
• songwriter
• Edmonton