Still Feel You
Lyrics and music by Steve Bostedor (2004)
It’s just now hitting me real bad,
These good times that we had,
Just me and my dad;
We’d play hide and seek,
And I would promise not to peek,
As I’d watch him hide from me;
And all-ye-all-ye in come free,
Never quite knew what it means,
But that I could come home safely;
And then those bottle rocket fights,
Camping under the stars at night,
In the back of our old green van.
[Chorus]
And you can’t hug me any more;
And I can’t kiss you any more;
And we can’t sit and debate about war no more;
But I can feel you even more than ever before.
(repeat)
You taught me how to be a man,
How to be the best I can,
And always be true to who I am;
And every time that I arrive,
At a tough decision in my life;
I still feel you by my side.
This was a tribute song that I wrote for my father who died in 2003. We used to play hide and seek as kids in the back yard with all of the neighbor kids. He was known in the neighborhood back then as “Big Dave”.
We camped out on my Grandpa’s land in Napoleon, MI in an old rusty green van that mysteriously kept running for years – even for a trip all the way to and from Florida.
I truly feel him by my side every day; and in that, he lives on.
I love you, Dad!
