Gone

Gone - Slaid Cleaves

I was going on twelve she was just nine

Passing round her little valentines

With the devil dancin' there in her eyes

Teasin' someday she would be my bride

I said you're just a little girl now go on

And as soon as I turned around there she was gone

There she was gone

I started thinkin' 'bout her night and day

I started singing a young love song

There she was gone

Out of school now and she's my girl

But a restless soul needs to see the world

I search for a promise in those dancing eyes

Would she settle down by my side

She whispers in my ear babe you can't hold on

So I opened up my arms there she was gone

There she was gone

I thought about her night and day

I was singing a lonesome song

There she was gone

Now we're Mom and Dad with a girl of our own

Growing like a w**d in this happy home

She's got that devil in her mama's blue eyes

But no one realizes how time flies

Until the house is still no more little girl's songs

One day we turned around there she was gone

I'm an old man now she's still my girl

Spends her days in a long gone world

There's a darker devil hiding in her eyes

Telling her she's someone else's wife

She looks at me and says Mister what's wrong

And right before my eyes there she is gone

There she was gone

I was searching for her every day

I was singing a worried man song

There she was gone

There she was gone

I'll be thinking 'bout her all my days

I'll be singing a lonesome song

There she was gone