This one is still a work in progress, but I had the demo done so I am posting it here, warts and all.  Probably going to change the title to "Useless Things".  Feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Copyright 2002 Damon Henrichs/Lisa Malone

You’d be so proud since you’ve been gone

I’m taking out the trash and keeping up the lawn

Making up the bed and putting down the seat

Doing all I can to keep the place neat

I water the roses out in the yard

Somehow they’re still growing, but it’s so hard

Trying to give them enough love and care

To make up for you not being there

        These things I do all for you

        Because I know you’d want me to

        Keep up appearances that everything is all right

        It’s not like I need these things to be

        Able to make it on my own

        But it’s what you need

        So I cling to these simple things

I place the roses next to your bed

To brighten the gray with beautiful red

Read you a book and brush back your hair

Hold onto your hand and whisper a prayer

        These things I do to help me get through

        Days I don’t know what else to do

        When shadows of fear of doubt come creeping up inside

        Reminding me there’s no guarantee

        In what we hope for and believe

        But it’s what I need

        So I still cling to these simple things

Solo

You’d be so proud, now that your gone

Still taking out the trash and keeping up the lawn

        These things I do to remind me of you

        Just like a rose without a bloom

        Thorny and barren now

        Though all things heal in time

        Someday I’ll be able to see

        Your memory can comfort me

        But until then

        I ’ll just have to cling to these simple things