Always Gone

Always Gone
by Si Kahn & Tom Chapin
© 1992 Joe Hill Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

I knew there were other ways to live
But they were not for you.
You did what you'd always done,
You did what you had to do.
Way back when I was just a kid
I could plainly see
That's just the way it was
You would not be there for me.

These days I understand,
These days it's all right with me.
I've forgotten and forgiven
How hard it used to be.
When you were always gone.
When you were always gone.

I've tried to live my own life
And still sing your song.
I thought I'd do what you did right
And just avoid the wrong.
But now with children of my own
There's no way I can't see
How much I missed from you.
How much you missed from me.

These days I understand,
These days it's all right with me.
I've forgotten and forgiven
How hard it used to be.
When you were always gone.
When you were always gone.
Always moving on.

Now I'm the age you used to be
I sometimes sing the blues.
I try to make it all make sense,
I try to pick and choose.
I try to walk a different path.
I think I've really grown.
I think I learned from your mistakes
Until I make my own.

And these days I understand,
These days I know it's true.
Now that you're growing old,
I cannot always be there for you.
Now that I'm always gone.
Now that I'm always gone.
Always moving on.
These days I understand.
These days I understand.
These days I understand.
These days I understand.
These days I understand.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's So Nice To Come Home CD.

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