When you're gone How can I even try to go on? Though I try how can I carry on? So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me I wish I understood The love you gave me, nothing else can save me Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find I

For so long 'Cause I've been waiting for you And right now there's a war between the vanities But all I see is you and me The fight for you is all I've ever known So come home Everything I can't be

Stranded at the drivin', branded a fool What will they say Monday at school? Sandy, can't you see I'm in misery? We made a start, now we're apart There's nothing left for me Love has flown, all alone I sit and wonder why yi-yi-yi Oh why you left me, oh

You took my kisses and all my love You taught me how to care Am I to be just remnant of a one side love affair All you took I gladly gave There is nothing left for me to save Why not take all of me Can't you see

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh 'Cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me I can't light no more of your darkness All my

Everybody knows Stepping out, everyone can see my face All the things I can't erase from my life Standing out so you won't forget my name That's the way we play this game of life Tell me now, if you came sneaking up behind Would you know me and see

I've felt the hate rise up in me Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves Inside my shell, I wait and bleed I wonder out where you can't see You haven't learned a thing I haven't changed a thing My flesh was in my bones The pain was always free

Cuz they are the ones that you fear most All this and you trade it in for nothing The time has finally come you get a mouth full You only act on greed and by your actions this is proof And can't you see the flowers dying all around you Got your hands in

For so long 'Cause I've been waiting for you And right now there's a war between the vanities But all I see is you and me The fight for you is all I've ever known So come home Everything I can't be

I'm hangin' on, hangin' on Wondering what's up next Girl, I can't wait Ain't nothing like spinning you around the room Where everyone can see You hangin' on, hangin' on to me Yeah I'm hangin' on, hangin' on To every word you say Every move you make