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They say you get many good dogs but only one great one. That dog tag hanging around my neck next to my cross is Hunters tag. I took it off him when I got to him. When I die my son can take if off me. This song is my goodbye…
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My Dog (Hunter) died suddenly of a hematoma on his spleen that burst at the end of March 2007. I gotta call from my then wife telling me that he was fine one minute and now all of a sudden he looks as though he is dying… I was on the highway and flew as fast I could and just 2 minutes away I felt a surge of energy or pressure pass right thru my body while driving and I screamed NO!!! then my phone range and she told me he just died and I said I already knew…
Well Thats only half the story…The irony here is when our marriage died so did Hunter…Ya’ see Hunter was our engagement ring some 10 years earlier..I got down on one knee and gave her this little beautiful brown round puppy for a ring as we were poor…fast forward to three months after his death and I was given a guitar by my friend on July 4th 2007 and I played for a total of 3 days and said this is too hard I quit…Then I awoke in the morning from a nightmare I had about Hunter (My Dog) who had passed 3 months earlier…I was chasing after him but he kept telling he he was gonna be ok.. crazy I know..and I was running in sand and could not get to him…Well I woke up in tears with this tune in my head…I got out of bed picked up that old guitar and I was able to play what I heard in my head and the lyrics poured out. The song was written in about 30 seconds…and now this is my final take on this song. This will always be my most precious song as it opened my mind and myself to a whole new world of music & song…Without this song there would never have been any songs for me…I thank God for this this song that he gave to me and my little angel in Heaven who is waiting for me at Heavens gate with his tail a waggin’.
They say you get many good dogs but only one great one…That dog tag hanging around my neck next to my cross is Hunters tag…I took it off him when I got to him …I was never able to say goodbye to him..When I die my son can take if off me
NEVER SAID GOODBYE~ORIGINAL~DMARKETTE COPYRIGHT © 2007 All rights reserved
Written on 7-07-07
Hunter R.I.P. 10-16-96~03-31-07
LIKE A, SUNRISE
YOU WOKE UP MY NIGHT
WARMING THE STONES
OF THIS MUNDANE LIFE
IN LIKE A LION
AND OUT LIKE A LAMB
THIS PRIDE WAS YOUR KINGDOM
TURNED TO BAD LANDS
NOW THE JACKALS THEY RULE
IN THIS DESOLATE TOWN
IT’S ALL DUST AND BONES
THAT LITTER THE GROUND
NEVER SAID GOODBYE
NO NEVER SAID GOODBYE
LIKE A, DENSE FOG
WITH NO END IN SIGHT
LOST IN THIS MIDST
I DON’T EVEN FIGHT
IS THIS A DREAM
THAT HAS NO END?
I SEE YOU IN THE DISTANCE
BUT I’M RUNNING SAND
NOW THE CLOUDS ROLLS IN
AND THE TEARS FEEL WARM
BETTER BRACE YOURSELF MAN
ITS THE..CALM.. BEFORE.. THE STORM
NEVER SAID GOODBYE
NO NEVER SAID GOODBYE
THIS IS WHY I CRY…
I NEVER SAAAID GOODBYYYE
GUITAR SHREDDING FACE MELTING HEART BLEEDING SOLO 
LIKE A, SLEEPLESS NIGHT
THE SUN FINALLY ROSE
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
AND THAT’S JUST HOW IT GOES….
STILL NEVER SAID GOODBYE
NO NEVER SAID GOODBYE
THIS IS WHY I CRY…
I NEVER SAAAID GOODBYYYE
I’LL LOVE YOU TILL I DIE…
THIS SONG IS MYYY GOODBYYYE…
LIKE A, SUNRISE
YOU WOKE UP MY NIGHT …
so sorry about your dog… But like you said yourself, I am sure he is watching you from heaven
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