When You're Away Lyrics - Perry Como

When you're away dear, 

how weary the lonesome hours, 

sunshine seems gray dear, 

the fragrance has left the flowers . . . 

Ever I hear you in seeming 

whispering soft love words to me 

Ah if I knew it were but dreaming 

n'er to be . . . 

Then, when you're near me 

there's n'yot that I strive to do 

save to endear me 

more fondly my love to you . . . 

Never again let us part dear, 

I'd die without you my own, 

hold me again to your heart, 

I love you alone . . . 

( Never again let us part dear, 

I'd die without you my own . . . ) 

. . . hold me again to your heart, 

I love you alone . . . 

Love you my own . . . 

love you alone! 

Music by Victor Herbert 

with lyrics by Henry Blossom , 1914