Football Dan - Craig J. Hansen

I wish you could have met
Football Dan
He was my favorite
Drinking man
We hung out a lot until he ran
Ran out of time.

He had been a high school
Football star
We talked all about it at our favorite bar
About what we were not
What we are
And so it goes.

And then one day
Football Dan was gone
Something inside of him went wrong
It’s tough when the highlight of your life
Is when you were barely more than a kid
But sometimes that’s the way it is
Everyone has to find their way to live.

When I start to miss Dan
Real bad
I go and talk to his dad
He tells me about the son
He had
And I have lots of time.

Maybe I haven’t found the new
Highlight yet
Of how good that life
Can get
Until then, I won’t forget
About Football Dan.

It’s late at night when I leave the bar
And I walk home underneath the stars
I think about what’s up ahead
And what I’ve left behind
In school, they said I wasn’t the thinking kind
But how do you know what’s in a person’s mind?