Little Sweet Loss

She was smiling in the sun
 At a sidestreet café
 She had a love in her eyes
 And an ease in her way
 Like her soul was lit up
 Her heart rung like a bell
 I'll never know her name
 But I remember her well
 People you're passing on the street
 They're the friends you may never meet
 And everybody's paid the cost
 Of a little sweet loss
 In a downstairs honky tonk
 A kindly old gentleman
 Sitting at a table alone
 A picture of a dog in his hand
 He wiped away a tear
 And I'll never know just why
 What thought going through his head
 Was enough to make him cry
 People you're passing on the street
 They're the friends you may never meet
 And everybody's paid the cost
 Of a little sweet loss
 There's something going on forever in everything around
 Connecting everyone, every sight and sound
 I can see through a glass darkly but someday face to face
 What do I hope to find by the end of this race
 Looking out from a black and white picture
 That itself is fifty years old
 Sitting at a desk in St. Louis
 Talking on the radio
 A girl of twenty-five
 She hopes to realize her dreams
 She and I are not so different
 There's just some time and space between
 People you're passing on the street
 They're the friends you may never meet
 And everybody's paid the cost
 Of a little sweet loss
 It's a little sweet loss