Since You've Been Gone Lyrics

A woman my age, sittin' here cryin'
I oughta be stronger than I am
Oughta take comfort in wisdom or something like that
But it isn't that way, 'cause sooner or later
I'm still that nervous ninth grader
Watching you pull us together, I never knew how

And since you've been gone I'm just fallin' apart
There's a hole in my life, in my soul, in my heart
And I stare out this window till light becomes dark
And there's nothing that's touching me now
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But not to complain, we're just bereft, not deserted
Lord knows you're rest was deserved
It's just your absence is present in all that I do
In the sun in the field, in the poem I keep saying
In the hymn that some church bells were playing
You have always been part of them but I never knew

How could I ever begin to say?
Surely you already knew
What is this world with you gone away?
How can this finally be true?