And we'll miss her
he'll miss her
and I picture her driving to school
about the last place she wanted to go
And I can see her laying on the road
Just like that
He'll probably mourn her forever
he'll sigh her name in his sleep
He keeps a shoe box under his bed
I remember, he shoed it to me
Labeled "When Annissa smiles"
things she never knew he kept
like drawings or letters and a palaroid
of her sitting in his lap
and that's just how we'll keep her
Forever a twenty year old girl
and I don't think there's any place
she'd rather be in the world
And I wonder why God took the girl
that was making him alright
She came along while we were trying
to make him see the light
And we all know he's faced some trouble
I know damn well he has a past
But when Annissa smiled
it made good of all the bad
and now it's over for her smile
he might as well have just died too
Cause if Annissa's gone
Jacob's days are thru
And I'll go to see Annissa
And I'll hold Jacob's hand
And I'll be that boy with all I have
to try and understand
that God must have his reasons
however hard to see
there's got to be a reason
why she left him here with me
Now I'll probably spend the rest of my life
watching Jacob slip away
Because Annissa smiled
for the last time today