Cheryl Wheeler - 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

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?