Away When You Were Here-Ben Folds Five

[ti:Away When You Were Here] [ar:Ben Folds Five] [al:The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.50]Away When You Were Here - Ben Folds Five [00:00.80]Written by：Ben Folds [00:01.15]Dad I know you were sad when you died [00:05.20] [00:07.01]And I was young [00:08.19]It's the way I kept you in my mind [00:12.87] [00:17.12]The mess that was left and my mother cried [00:21.39] [00:22.63]And when she stood up [00:24.33]She was nobody's mother I'd be fine [00:29.19] [00:30.40]But I missed you then [00:32.87]And I miss you now [00:35.04]Liked you'd missed things I might say [00:38.41] [00:39.56]You're still lost in clouds [00:41.99]But I'm older now [00:44.20]I can see through lifting haze [00:47.89] [00:49.41]That you were away [00:51.17] [00:51.73]Even when you were here [00:54.79] [01:03.75]Sometimes a phrase or a manner that's you [01:07.98] [01:09.18]Comes through me [01:10.02]It goes in a flash [01:12.14]It's a frame it's a blink like life [01:15.65] [01:18.87]Oh and how much [01:20.77]Now should we pay for the past [01:23.98] [01:25.54]'Cause you could age [01:27.27]With grace if I freed you in my mind [01:32.03] [01:33.02]But I loved you then [01:35.58]And I love you now [01:37.68]All the things I wished I'd asked [01:41.08] [01:42.21]When I'm lost in clouds [01:44.54]I remember how [01:46.86]I was robbed and I was blessed [01:50.20] [01:51.87]And you were away [01:53.77] [01:54.42]Even when you were here [01:57.27] [01:58.22]'Cause it's not about you [02:02.28]Not you anymore [02:06.01] [02:07.50]It's about what I'd do with it all [02:13.37] [02:13.92]And I I'll never let you let me down [02:21.31] [02:39.33]This morning [02:40.13]I wake to be older than you were [02:44.05] [02:45.46]Flash I'll smell [02:46.79]For miles very footstep would be mine [02:51.57] [02:52.57]You'd have lost that weight [02:54.77]You'd have gone so straight [02:56.98]You'd have made my wedding day [03:00.43] [03:01.36]You'd have saved my youth [03:03.64]From that point of truth [03:05.86]You'd have kept those wolves at bay [03:09.32] [03:10.90]But you were away [03:12.61] [03:15.73]You were away even when you were here