The Only Truth

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This is a song for my father, who contracted Alzheimer’s disease just about the time I was finishing college (1972). I was remarkably close to my dad, and this song is one of many I wrote for him.

He was almost fifty years when he found out most his fears
And he set out to lay them all aground
And you know he never had the time to turn himself around
But time and time I’d often hear him say

He said the only truth is finding who you are
And the only time is time spent searching for a path
You’ll know who your friends are by looking in their eyes
And you’ll find out for sure by and by
That the only truth is a friend

I knew him all those years
While he taught me to see and hear
So I could find out what was my life’s work
You know he never had the time to see it all come true
The time to see it grow in his own son

But life has funny ways
And time can slip away
And we wonder just who we’ve got inside
And the peaceful seeds that he had sown
Had borne such bitter fruit
And his life passed as quietly as it began

All that I am now and all that he has been
Is no more than a whisper in the wind
So, if you’re waiting on tomorrow
So you’ll be homeward bound
Just look around and see what you’ve got now