I wrote this song a few months after Mike committed suicide. Mike was a collector of many things, and after his death I had to clean out his home. A lot of his things ended up at my house. Mike had also done a lot of building on my property, and for a long time it seemed like everywhere I looked, there was something he had owned or built, a memory, a trace of him. It was a hard time.
Traces of You
Jackie Ginn
May 10, 2017
Sitting here all by myself,
I see traces of you.
Complex, simple, weak and strong -
All traces of you.
When I walked away from you
I tried to put you out.
I wanted all things to be gone -
Gone, without a doubt.
But still I find these traces here,
And what am I to do?
Surrounding me both day and night,
These traces of you.
Some traces I can hide away
So I don’t have to see,
But some creep out of corners
Unexpectedly.
You left this world behind you.
It’s tragic, and it’s true.
And you left me ever holding
These traces of you.
