Not For Keith (2006 Digital Remaster)

In Germany his days finally caught him;

I won't insult his memory

With long-distance grief

Tears and wakes weren't his style: not him

Not for Keith

He'd have laughed in

My face if he saw it get mournful

He'd pull me up short and say "Life carries on"

In that gentle way of being cruelly scornful

Now he's gone

"I want to see it all and eat it"

Was as close to ethos as he came;

Though he knew he couldn't beat it

He never gave of himself anything less than best

In the game

Oh one of the game

I never did say I never quite found time:

He taught me a lot and I carry it still

Never thanked him at all for his friendship

And now I never will

The diaries we write are

Those that we crave for

We never put the P S at the foot of the final page

He deserved more time

But he never was made for

Middle age

Middle age

Not for middle age

Not for Keith

Not For Keith (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill