Sometimes I call you

I know I can't reach you

To hear your voicemail

Sorry I missed you

Wish I could go back

tell my old self that

You don't have the time to not make time

it goes fast

And I was livin' like you'd live forever

And it took losin' you to learn to love better

To be the daughter who comes home more often

Who holds on to a goodbye hug a little longer

To be the best friend

I promise to check in

And the kind of sister my brother always needed

Who takes time to call

even just to say hey

'Cause you loved me that way

The first to show up

an hour early

Front row in the bleachers to make sure you could see me

You stood in the doorway for every goodbye

I still see you wavin' underneath the porch light

And you were livin' like you wouldn't live forever

You knew the little things in life are what matter

Like makin' those pancakes to sweeten my heartbreak

Pullin' me out of school to go fishin' on Thumb Lake

Had me sit beside you for Sunday service

Every time I'd get antsy

you'd slip me a Werther's

The first to forgive all my biggest mistakes

Yeah, you loved me that way

Yeah, you loved me that way

I had the honor to be your granddaughter

I could only hope to be half of the whole that you both were

Can only hold you in a picture frame

You held nothin' back

gave everything

You loved me that way

You loved me that way