Anna's Call

*This is a song I wrote about my best friend, Anna Lee Janowitz, who was killed on August 16, 2002 in a car accident.* In dreams her face is all I see I’m haunted by her memory I know you came to set her free But why take her away from me? I see her smile, I hear her laugh But I can’t understand How can this life not be a part Of God’s Almighty plan? I want to take your hand and take her stand Oh God, don’t let me fall I want to wake right now from where I sleep To fight for Anna’s call Something in me cannot rest until I know the truth I know there’s something I don’t know But still I have no proof I feel it in my heart There’s more that happened on that day Why, O God, can’t you just say Why you could not let her stay? My heart may never cease to ache My tears may never dry My sorrow might not go away And I might always cry But even though she’s found her home And is where she belongs There must still be something in her heart That aches and groans and longs I want to take your hand and take her stand Oh God, don’t let me fall I want to wake right now from where I sleep To fight for Anna’s call Her life she lost, but there’s a call to fill the void she made She sees that she was taken home before her part was played I feel her mantle falling down upon my shoulders now I know that I must live for her but God, I don’t know how Let me dream the dreams you gave to her And show me how to let her live through me She had a call, a purpose, and a vision This death could not have been her destiny I want to take your hand and take her stand Oh God, don’t let me fall I want to wake right now from where I sleep To fight for Anna’s call