In memory of Lucas

I've been thinking of this song a lot - especially the part about "I wake up in the morning and I wonder". The song is about lost love, but much of it fits with any loss, when the world keeps moving around us and we aren't there somehow.

Please keep our family in your prayers over Easter and Passover - they are having a memorial there and we are having a memorial here on Sunday, April 17. We'll be planting a tree in memory of Lucas.

I've linked the title to a video of Karen Carpenter singing the song. This is the first version of the song I ever heard, when I was about 11 years old.

The End Of The World

Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to the shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me anymore?

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when you said goodbye