Certainty Omar Rodríguez-López

Sometimes I wonder if she’s looking back
Through the thin veil of all our actions to think about that life

I knew one day pain would come
My dear sweet mother
I lost my life today
With the face of all my past

They sent an angel on its way
We knew her time was near and she’d be going home

I knew one day pain would come
My dear sweet mother
I lost my life today
With the face of all my past
And faith for us to bear

I received a gift, the strange unknown
Hiding the fear whose name was a danger to all
For the time that it takes

Still I feel the nights she cried
Was so sick and tired we knew
Her lover will take her back someday
Of this we were certain
Death would come as nothing new
Silent for us to bear
Never knew it was so precious