When I was 10 my mom took me to see, the granddad I never metShe said she graduated from high school, a week after his deathI said "If you were only 18, he couldn't have been too old"Then the wisest words, I ever heard, is when I was told

It's not the years in your lifeIt's the life in your yearsIt's not the date your born, or the date you dieIt's what you do while you are hereAfter you pass on, and tears are goneThe only question left to askIs how did you live your lifeAll the days within the dash

My senior year at Missouri State, my world came to an endA late night, head-on collision, took the life of my girlfriendHow on earth could God let this happen, I could not comprehendThen I thought of how she, forever changed me, and it made a bit more sense

It's not the years in your lifeIt's the life in your yearsIt's not the date your born, or the date you dieIt's what you do while you are hereAfter you pass on, and tears are goneThe only question left to askIs how did you live your lifeAll the days within the dash

When you're staring at a tombstone, and you read the inscripted datesThink of the time of the line in between, that's when most memories were made

It's not the years in your lifeIt's the life in your yearsIt's not the date your born, or the date you dieIt's what you do while you are hereAfter you pass on, and tears are goneThe only question left to askIs how did you live your lifeAll the days within the dash

Days Within The Dash

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