Absent Friends

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Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
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I wonder why it never happens for me.
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It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
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Why you had to go is a mystery to me.


[Verse]
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What seemed important then becomes trivial when
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Fate deals the card that forces your hand.
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All the places we'd been, all the things we had seen,
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No more in the future; it just isn't planned.


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It's all very strange, but when you went, I changed.
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It just seemed to happen with the passing of each day.
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I don't understand. Is it part of a plan?
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Does one person grow when another fades away?


[Chorus]
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Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
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It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C              D       C          G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.


[Verse]
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Small things you'd do weave pictures of you.
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They're printed for life on the back of my mind.
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I was always so sure. Your life was so pure.
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To the faults and to bad times a loved one stays blind.


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[Verse]
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I always found that when you were around,
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You helped me with worries and eased all my fears.
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You always had time for problems of mine,
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A shoulder to cry on, a listening ear


[Chorus]
G          D                Em                    Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
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It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C             D       C            G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.


[Chorus]
G          D                 Em                    Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
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It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C             D       C            G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.