"Farewell Ballad (octavia)"
By Docmajor119 (https://pastebin.com/u/Docmajor119)

URL: https://pastebin.com/gDMPmY1T
Created on: Thursday 12th of September 2013 04:49:42 PM CDT
Retrieved on: Sunday 25 of October 2020 05:09:49 AM UTC


My dear Vinyl, who could have foreseen

my dear friend, how long has it been




It seemed an eternity since I've seen your face

so leaving the train I had a quick pace




I went to our house, nopony was there

I peered inside, but found it was bare




I wondered then, what could have occurred

you leaving town just seemed so absurd




I searched high and ever so low

wondering still, where did you go




I asked around, nopony talked

with sad faces, away they walked




I didn't Know, I wondered why

what had I said to make them cry




Suddenly I heard a tune I knew

I heard it before while I lived with you




I saw a glimmer, a spark of hope

at the top of a grassy slope




It came from there, without a doubt

the song I heard, the town throughout 




The sound you played, it beckoned to me

I followed it gladly, filled with glee




But as I reached the top of this hill

my happiness had all but it's fill




Sadness now came in roaring seas

and weeping now, I fell to my knees




For at the top, where your music would boom

I found you sleeping, in your musical tomb




Kneeling here for you I cry

still I wonder, How, when, and why





Now as your song comes to it's close

it stops for a moment, then again it goes





It made me realize, with the hint of a grin

you're alive in my heart, and the music therein 




It matters not, What, Why, or when

but rather this moment, and what's done within




So I'll stand now, stand by your side

the reach of our friendship, death cannot divide




I'll pull out my cello, we'll play a duet

the likes of which, none have heard yet




You with your beat and me with my string

together we'll make this sad world sing




We'll take their song, so sorry and sad

we'll take it and shape it to something glad




We'll fill it full with a happy cheer

we'll show this world, there's nothing to fear




We'll play together, just you and I

a final duet, as a lasting goodbye




Goodbye to your body, but not your soul

it survives through my heart, keeping it whole




Now I'm not sad, I cannot lie

I'm just so happy, that now I cry




For Deep down inside I know

through my music your soul will flow




I play for you now and with you forever

when next I'm alone, shall be never




For together we are, our music now one

with taut strings, and records spun.