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