Short and sweet. Gets right to the point. The passing of a mother is always a difficult time, and I think you nailed it on the "three years / bed awake" part. I'm sure you could have expanded it if you had wanted, but the brevity is defiantly a choice for the song that is well played.

I wish I could feel that way about my Mom. Perhaps I do, or maybe I will. But that's how I felt when my Dad past in 2023. I wrote a farewell song to him last year. But my Mom and I don't talk any more, mostly because my sister gets in the way and says she's protecting Mom from me. For years I've been trying to wish them my love, but they both are battling demons, and they see me as one. So now I stay away, and I don't know how I'll feel if and when either of them pass before I do.

This was about me and my mom too. It feels so unreal when your parents pass. Thanks for a good cry, I needed that!

Playing a repeating minor note on guitar to just drag the emotion slightly down, over and over, rhythmically... It works so well with these lyrics.

There is that unbelievable part about grief, that the people who have died keep being dead. Three verses seems like the right number here. Such a straight-ahead sincere song about how unfathomable it is.

the guitar part actually is making my eyes well up. sorry about your mom

TC, this is really beautiful! Heartbreaking and beautiful. You reached something way down inside me with this one. Rare for any song, especially a FAWM song, to hit me like that. But yours did. Thank you.

Oh this is so sweet. I'm so sorry about the loss of your mom. The simple accompaniment and vocal delivery is exactly what the emotion requires.

Broke my heart right into pieces. I think even the grammatical structure is part of the lingering grief - the sudden shift from past to present in the third verse makes them coexist.

Man, that's a wonderful, personal, and touching homage.

the first word that came out of my mouth, around the sixth line was "wow"... powerful. sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing this. not only it inspires to write more genuinely but also reminds me to be a better son. Great song, wonderful touching track.

Beautiful and heartbreaking. Really powerful in its simplicity.

I think so many of us can relate to this. I was with my father when he passed in 2022, so it's three years for me too. You capture the emotions so well in this. Simple yet effective.

😢 TC, this is heartbreakingly sentimental and a beautiful heartfelt write. My father died in 2005 and my mother in 2015. Your song brought me back to those final breaths. It's hard, and it baffles me how quickly the years pass by. Truly a fantastic tribute ❤️

I lost my Dad a week ago. I wasn‘t there when he passed away, he prefered to go alone after my Mom left the room, but I said Farewell a week before.

So you song resonates in me.
It‘s beautiful !