Hey CC, I brought you by some roses
Since you always liked them best
I thought I’d stop to talk
Though everyone says you should peacefully rest

Since I never got a chance to, CC,
I wanted to say goodbye,
Because none of us really knew
That you were going to die.

I know we didn’t always get along
And that we sometimes did argue
But I always counted you as my friend, CC,
I always always loved you.

So it’s not that we didn’t care,
You should know that never was the case.
But I think we all should have realized something was wrong
When you no longer had that smile upon your face.

Just because the dumb boys didn’t ask you out
‘Cause they were too busy chasing all the popular girls
Didn’t mean you weren’t beautiful already
With your big brown eyes and sienna curls.

Just because we, your friends, never thought to mention that you were pretty
And never told you how we all loved you like our own sister
Doesn’t mean we never thought it.

You knew your family loved you, didn’t you?
Did you know your friends loved you, too?
We never wanted to change you, CC,
So why’d you feel this is what you had to do?

Maybe it was my fault,
Though I’m not so very sure
I guess no one except you
Will ever know what your reasons were.

Those baggy jeans were the fashion
And the big sweatshirt was common, too,
But none of us ever realized
That those clothes used to perfectly fit on you.

I was there when you got your first pet ever
And I comforted you whenever you were crying
Maybe I should feel the guiltiest of all
For not knowing my friend was dying.

But that day you passed on, to wherever people go,
And I saw that frail frame of bones
I wondered how you lasted as long as you had.

Well, I guess that’s all there is to say, CC,
So say hello to God for me, and say hey to Auntie Liz,
I’ll leave you flowers by the headstone,
If that’s what this thing is.

But, there is something else.

I want you to know that you had the brightest personality
And your looks did never lack,
But what do all of us do now, CC?
I want my best friend back.