When She's Gone Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

She threw her purse upon the bed 

She looked around and shook her head 

There's really nothing left, she said 

There's nothing I ain't done 

She wore your favorite dress tonight 

She hoped her hair would catch the light 

And you just sat there gettin' tight 

On double shots of rum 

You don't care what people say 

They're gonna say it anyway 

You don't hear what you can't use 

It's always been the same old news 

You don't beg and you don't plead 

Or miss a thing that you don't need 

She knew by the way you kissed her 

When she's gone, you won't miss her 

Morning comes on an old cat's paws 

And when the sun hits the walls 

The light's as bright as it ever was 

After or before 

And you wince as waking pounds your head 

And you drag your arm across the bed 

And the tangled sheets and the twisted spread 

Fall onto the floor 

And the kitchen table finds you silent 

If you had a thought, now you can't find it 

You take a long drag on your smoke 

And taste your coffee growing cold 

She didn't beg and you didn't plead 

She knew exactly how to leave 

The way she knew when you kissed her 

When she's gone, you won't miss her