If We Could Meet Once More

Years ago, my older sister and mother used to listen to songs by a popular LDS artist at the time. His name is Bryce Neubert. I fell in love with a couple of the songs that they would listen to quite a bit. They were called Everybody Wins and Keep Trying.

For a few years I kind of forgot about this artist and suddenly a few years ago, I thought of him again. I think it was just through browsing at Media Play that I saw the CD, so I bought the that included those two songs. This CD eventually got scratched to the point that I couldn't listen to it at all. So, off I went to Deseret Book to replace the CD.

Anyway, I LOVE all of these songs on this CD. But there is one that has hit home just recently. It is called If We Could Meet Once More. It is the song on the link.

Anyway, this song ALWAYS makes me think of my grandpa. Even more so around this time of year. He passed away on March 27, 1993. It was a very sudden and unexpected death, so it's been hard to handle at times.

I miss him so very much and will ALWAYS remember the final time we saw him. We were visiting my grandparents one night and my little sister who was only 3 at the time kept asking if we could sleep over. My mom kept saying, "No, they don't need to sleep over tonight." But my grandparents kept saying, "Yes, they do." Finally my mom felt like she should just give in, so we got to sleep over.

That night as we were all watching the news (Okay, so grandma and grandpa were watching it, we were just around) the forecast for the next day showed that it was going to be nice. So grandpa said, "Looks like you guys can help me out in the yard tomorrow."
My grandpa was a GREAT gardener and his yard was just beautiful. We didn't think he was seriously going to want our help. The next day sure enough he called us out to help him in the yard. I don't remember exactly what we did, just that we helped him out.

As we were leaving that day, he said "I Love You" to each one of us. This was a man, who showed his love through actions and not so much through words, so that was a little surprising. But we didn't think too much of it.

A week later he was in the hospital. Apparently my grandma & uncle came back to the house and found my grandpa on the bottom of the stairs unconcious. They called 911 and he was taken to the hospital.

He was kept on machines that Friday and Saturday morning my mom and her brothers and sister decided to let him go. They called all of the grandkids to come to the hospital to say a final goodbye. My older cousin, Tim came to get us as my father had to go get my older sister from out of town, where she was at a softball tournament. My little sister wasn't even able to come to the hospital as she was only 3, so she went to a friends home.

At the hospital, we met up with all the aunts, uncles & cousins. My aunt took my "best friend cousin" Katie in to say goodbye to Grandpa. When they came back it was my turn, but seeing how hard it was for Katie, I decided not to go. I didn't want to see him hooked to a bunch of machines.

When it came time for the viewing I could only manage to go to the little family gathering first, then I wanted to go right home. I didn't like seeing my grandpa the way he was, although he looked very peaceful. During his funeral I did my best to stay away from the casket.

I totally regret that day, and I probably will forever.

Anyway back to the song...These are the lyrics of the song (as best I can hear) and yeah...
Right click on song title and open in a new window for the song.

IF WE COULD MEET ONCE MORE
By: Bryce Neubert

WHEN I THINK OF YOU, SO FAR AWAY,
I TRY SO HARD TO REMEMBER THAT DAY.
WHAT IS IT LIKE WHERE YOU ARE?

YOU WALKED WITH ME, I WAS SO VERY YOUNG.
YOU GAVE ME LOVE AND YOU CALLED ME YOUR SON.
YOU LET ME KNOW WHAT I COULD BE.

HOW I LONG TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
TO SEE YOUR FACE, THAT SMILE,
AND THEN WE COULD SING THAT SONG LIKE BEFORE
IF WE COULD MEET ONCE MORE.
IF WE COULD MEET ONCE MORE.

LIFE CAN BE HARD JUST MAKING IT THROUGH.
BUT I WILL TRY TO ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU,
CAUSE NOW I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.

HOW I LONG TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
TO SEE YOUR FACE, THAT SMILE.
AND THEN WE COULD SING THAT SONG LIKE BEFORE.
IF WE COULD MEET ONCE MORE.
AND WE WILL MEET ONCE MORE.