She's Gone - Tavares

She said if I ever deceive her She'd be gone before I could count ten, I guess that I didn't believe her; Oh just look at the trouble I'm in. Chorus: Now she's gone, gone, gone, Gone, gone, gone, cryin' won't bring her back; The more that I cry, the faster that plane flies Father across the sky. Well I lost every right to be happy, Well I lost all the Heaven I found; She warned me she'd leave and she left me, Before my first tear hit the ground. Chorus... If I only knew where I could find her Well I'd crawl there on my hands and knees. 'Cause each tick of the clock will remind her That she's one second farther from me. Chorus... {Instrumental} Chorus... Farther across the sky.

She's gone And it's quiet now Took her mother with her Left town Took her mother's eye Stole her mother's heart It's a compromise We nurture that part and she's gone Says she can walk now Says she can walk now Thinks she can walk Seen her walking She totters and falls And when I'm not looking Leans onto the wall And she'll hold on to me only when she wants And she'll fall and be up again It's part of the fun But she's gone Thinks she can walk now Thinks she can walk now Thinks she can walk She's gone And it's quiet now Took her mother with her Left town Took her mother's eye Stole her mother's heart It's a compromise We nurture that part and she's gone And it's quiet now Took her mother with her Left town

My baby's gone and died on me. She's gone but I'm not free. Now I know just how much I loved her. Now I just sit there and cry Oh, yes she's gone, Oh, yes she's gone To that land of no return. Got to roam, just got to travel. Any place, any old how. Faraway to distant places Try to forget, forget it somehow. Oh yes, she's gone Oh yes, she's gone But my baby I don't know where I'm going. Got to go back, go back sometime, That's where I'll stay, that's where I'll die Got to go back, go back sometime That's where you lay, that's where I'll die That's where I'll go. That's where I'll go Oh, my precious love, that's where I'll go.

In the middle of the night, in the middle of the day She can make me feel all right and make it all okay She can make me feel so good by looking in my eye She can take me to the edge, take me to the sky She's gone, she's gone, she's gone I'm telling you she's gone She put her hands in my hair, put her kiss on my face She puts my heart in my mouth, my soul in its place Who could love me like she do? Who could even start to try? 'Cause she can love me more than you, I never wonder why She's gone, she's gone I'm telling you she's gone, she's gone I'm telling you she's gone, she's gone I'm telling you she's gone, she's gone She's gone Like a shadow in the dark, like a ripple on a stream I see her float across my mind like a picture in a dream And the more that I know, seems the more that I care Give the world and all I own just to know that she's still there Like a shadow in the dark, like a ripple in a stream But you're floating on my mind She's gone, she's gone She's gone, she's gone I'm telling you she's gone, she's gone She's gone, she's gone She's gone I'm telling you she's gone, she's gone She's gone

She's gone Out of my life I was wrong I'm to blame I was so untrue I can't live without her love In my life There's just an empty space All my dreams are lost I'm wasting away Forgive me, girl Lady, won't you save me? My heart belongs to you Lady, can you forgive me For all I've done to you? Lady, oh, lady She's gone Out of my life Oh, she's gone I find it so hard to go on I really miss that girl, my love Come back into my arms I'm so alone I'm begging you I'm down on my knees Forgive me, girl Lady, won't you save me? My heart belongs to you Lady, can you forgive me For all I've done to you? Lady, oh, lady, oh, lady Lady, won't you save me? My heart belongs to you Lady, can you forgive me For all I've done to you? Lady, oh, lady My heart belongs to you Lady, can you forgive me? For all I've done to you

Hey Mama Mama used to take me across her lap She used to hit me with a trap When I was bad. I didn't know at the time Being bad could lead to crime But now I'm glad Well she kept me on the double I stayed out of trouble And now I understand She said son you've got to give a heck Promise you'll always give respect to the other man When I used to make fun of others She'd say no not to your brothers And that ain't all When someone is feeling low Think of the nicest things you know To make them feel tall I never forget what mama said When she kneel down and pray For the Father's guiding hand Throw your arms around his neck Make him proud to give respect to the other man Oh now that I'm a man God has taken my mother's hand And now I'm carrying on Oh sometimes I'll have to weep Mother's love I'll always keep Cause she made me strong And if should ever have a son We gonna have lots of fun And I'll teach him to understand She said son you got to give a heck Promise you'll always give respect to the other man