She'll take his secrets to her grave She has no memory of him she'd like to say She's had to live with the decisions that he made For oh so many years He'll see her on the other side She can't wait to empty out the space he occupied He's not the only one that she's been watching slowly die For oh so many years He never listened, she wouldn't say He said she has no ambition anyway She never told him, he couldn't see If he didn't know himself then how could she She can't miss a man she never knew She learned not to be afraid of the things that sun will do He lost it all on the night no one recalls From the liquor and the drugs She spread his ashes by the sea She couldn't think of any place he'd like to be She knows these things will come in threes and maybe fours She could've asked him, he could've said He haunted her before he was dead He never wondered, neither did she The good years were never meant to be, never meant to be