Now You're Gone

Laying in the darkness 4 am

Staring at my alarm clock

Sleep evades me, silence pervades me

Now you’re gone

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Thirty years we had been together

Boy and man I have loved you dear

From the first, I stared into your green eyes

My heart and soul were yours to keep

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You were my North Star

My pillar of support

You were my lover, my friend, my saviour

My angel

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Now I don’t know how to be me

I don’t know how to feel,

or touch or think or laugh

You guided me from who I was to

who I wanted to be

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I don’t know how it happened

I don’t know why

Could I have done something differently?

I lie here thinking and twisting and turning

and crying and moaning

Because now you’re gone

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Life will never be the same

And I don’t think it should

I wouldn’t change a minute of our time together

Even if I could

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Laying in the darkness 5 am…