Jewel – Here When Gone

I am a woman haunted by hands

Even though I’m alone

Traces of Pompey

Across my skin

And an invisible map

Of where you’ve been

It’s dry road to Idaho

A thirsty tongue across the land

And soil so dry

You could swallow an entire man

Took the first road out of town

Hoping that you were just skin deep

Well I feel you like

Some sort of phantom limb

Beside me when I sleep

Cause you are here when gone

You are here when gone

You are here when gone

You are here when gone

I watch another grey day unfold

It’s dusty wings

Sometimes I wish I were more like

Rocks and stones and things

Sometimes I wish my heart

Were not like flowers at all

That way I wouldn’t get butterflies

When you called

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And the night swallows itself

You can see it in the stars

The moon blinks it’s tired eyes

I may be a thousand miles to nowhere

Does that make me lost or found?

Oh – is it that relative to if you’re around?

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And some birds abandon their young

Cause the instinct is too strong to fly

Well I feel like abandoning

My guitar and my books and I’m afraid

I don’t know why

Cause you are here when gone

You are here when gone

You are here when gone

You are here when gone