When He's Gone Lyrics - English Oceans - Drive By Truckers

She sits alone and stares out the window, the thoughts pour out 

The morning sun pours in 

She paints a smile on her lips and looks at herself in the mirror 

As her day begins 

She scrubs in basins never clean, it won't wash off 

The smell of compromise 

He opens the door for her, there's kindness in his smile 

But she loathes the need in his eyes 

She can't stand to have him around 

But she always misses him when he's gone 

She burns like an effigy when he's gone it makes her mad 

How attached she's become 

And if it were up to me, I'd prove her wrong, but it's too bad 

It's someone else's song 

He might come home, after she's sleeping and quietly admire 

The smile on her lips 

He crawls up beside her, she presses it all up against him 

And dreams 

She can't stand to have him around 

But she always misses him when he's gone [x3]