You Are Gone
I was not prepared to lose
When I learned the awful news
The news that you had met your end;
A truth too hard to comprehend. You are gone, you are gone.
How could there be an end to you?
How could I believe it true?
Through my life you skipped and flew;
I never got enough of you. You are gone, you are gone.
I get by, and life goes on
A page is turned, and you are gone; you are gone, you are gone.
Your phantom form I see pass by
Out the corner of my eye;
It’s force of habit tells the lie,
Then jolts the mind set to deny You are gone, you are gone.
To know that you would no more be
Tore away a part of me.
Now wakeful night and aching dawn,
I am here, but you are gone, You are gone, you are gone.
I get by, and life goes on;
The seasons change, and you are gone. You are gone, you are gone.
Time, they say, must heal all pain,
But I’d prefer you back again;
Instead, to face reality,
I say the dreadful litany: You are gone, you are gone.
Some have faith that when we die
We’ll meet our lost ones in the sky;
I don’t know, but were it true,
I’d dance for joy at sight of you. You are gone, you are gone.
I get by, and life goes on;
But I am here and you are gone. You are gone, you are gone.
