Tom Pacheco
I WAS MEANT TO PASS THROUGH YOUR LIFE




The silence here around me is howling like a train
The bells of old Saint Mary's are ringing in the rain
And you are now a memory, a ghost across my brain
And why we're not together, only a mystic could explain
I think inside we always knew it had to be this way
I was meant to pass through your life, I wasn't meant to stay

The gypsy mandolins we heard, across the Rio Grande
On that moonlit night in Texas when we slept out in the sand
And we saw that shooting star blaze by and it seemed to be a sign
Of something that we felt inside but never could define
The wind sang through the stars that night and carried us away
I was meant to pass through your life, I wasn't meant to stay

I'll think about your laughter every time a river sings 
I'll think about your spirit on the first warm day of spring 
I'll think about your beauty when a double rainbow shines 
I'll think about your faith in life when I feel I'm losing mine 
You touched me like a vision in a strange and holy way 
I was meant to pass through your life, I wasn't meant to stay

Without you here beside me, time seems to stand still 
The-void you leave behind, a universe could never fill 
A part of you will always run like blood inside my veins 
For how could someone know you and ever be the same? 
And after it has all be said, there is nothing more to say 
I was meant to pass through your life, I wasn't meant to stay
You were meant to pass through my life, you weren't meant to stay