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It started raining just as I dropped her off at her car
The sun was on the cusp of rising
And it was still cool from the late winter
But the days were now warming in the spring time

She walked half way to the car
Then turned around, looked at me and smiled
Then ran back to my window as I rolled it down
For her to stick her head in and kiss me one more time

Then ran back in the rain to her car
Get in and drive off
I sat there for a time and the rain started
To drizzle into my opened window

Sitting at the parking lot
In the southern touch, thinking
As far as I'm concerned
It was the last time I ever saw her

On the drive out to the funeral
To bury my gran'daddy at the candle snow
Growing up in North Alabama is seldom snow
Sometimes a couple of year would go by
Sometimes it might snow twice in a season

But it was still a novelty
The sky was as gray as an open chord
And as plain as the fog in black and white
My gran'daddy always liked snow
And somehow I did too

The drive was out the old Savannah highway
Which was still two lane then
We wind around dead man's curve
Where that lady from the Sundine
Bread wrapper was killed in the head on

Back when I was little
Out past our family's farm
To the little Methodist church
Where once upon a time
My grandmother had gone to Sunday school

The same humble structure that witnessed
Their marriage for forty two years
And just a few years ago I'd gone to Youth group
And met that this new foundation camp outs
Hail rides and lock ins

Maybe I thought about that sad snowy
Morning in burying my gran'daddy
Thus few years later, as I drove home in the rain
Home to my fiancee's bed
Just a few weeks shy of getting married

With the taste of an old high school
Sweet heart lingering on my lips and fingers
And the rain started pouring down
Out of the sky like a wonderful wrath from God

The God who might smite me
Even if I turned from his grasp, shine and embrace
I was plotting an escape that I was still
A few years away from having the guts to pull off

Years later that realization became a personal hell
That followed my around for a while
And then did to many more
You can only carry hell around
So long before it gets to be a drag