Since You've Been Gone Lyrics - Defying Gravity - Wheeler Cheryl

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?