Away When You Were Here chords by Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five
Verse 1
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Dad I know you were sad
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when you died
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And I was young it's the way I
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kept you in my mind
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The mess that was left and
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my mother cried
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And when she stood up she was
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nobody's mother I'd be fine
Verse 2
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But I missed you then
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And I miss you now
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Liked you'd missed things I might say
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You seemed lost in clouds
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But I'm older now
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I can see through lifting haze
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That you were away even when
you were here
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Verse 3
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Sometimes a phrase or a man
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ner that's you
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Comes through me, it goes in a flash
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It's a frame, it's a blink like life
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Oh and how much now should
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we pay for the past
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'Cause you could age with grace
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if I freed you in my mind
Verse 4
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But I loved you then
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And I love you now
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All the things I wished I'd asked
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When I'm lost in clouds
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I remember how
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I was robbed and I was blessed
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And you were away even
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when you were here
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'Cause it's not about you,
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not you, anymore
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It's about what I'd do with it all
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And I, I'll never let you let me down
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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This morning I wake to be
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older than you were
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Fresh white snow for miles,
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every footstep will be mine
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You'd have lost that weight,
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you'd have gone so straight
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You'd have made my wedding day
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You'd have saved my youth
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from that bullet of truth
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You'd have kept those wolves at bay
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But you were away,
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you were away even when you were
Away When You Were Here
Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five
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