One By One

Goodbye my younger son

I'll miss the spring and summer fun

But my final journey has begun

And though we part our heart is one

The romance and the ecstacy

Live on as more than memory

Your music lives inside of me

And though the image fades, I still can see



You are my younger self

The witness to the tales I tell

You're the all-star in the wishing well

A carefree lover raising hell

And now it comes this long goodbye

It makes the mother in me cry

But all that's born must surely die

You know there's more than this and so do I



And so I say to you goodbye

John and Paul will say they don't know why

You'll be coming through the rye

Apple of your father's eye

You're a bundle of desire

Unafraid to take it higher

I can say you lit my fire -

Light my fire, light my fire



You were there with Dolphin Dan

You were Wo and Woody's biggest fan

You believe that kites are fun

Bear your soul to anyone

All that's born must surely die

You know there's more than this and so do I