Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

And away

Only when you're gone

Gonna need a hammer and nails

To construct this bitter love song

This cruel testamented song

That rings out only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

And away

Only when you're gone

Oh



Rude are the tongues of love

That speak of mercy for us all

And leave us only with a song

And leave us only with a song

Now it's a cold and hollow whisper

That consoles my body when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

And away

Only when you're gone

Oh



And it's only when you're gone

And away

Your ghost runs through me in that special way

It's a nice old town

My hometown

Come for the darkness in this prison cell

I love you long and I love you well



So bury me in the kitchen

Bury me in the stones

Oh, bury me everywhere you go

In the shadows of the hallway

Oh, for we do no longer know

What we can no longer hold

On days like these our heads fill up with smoke

And our memories grow old

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

And away

Only when you're gone



Only when you're gone

Only, only when you're gone

Only when you're gone

And away

Only when you're gone



Gone away

And gone away

Oh