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Girl, You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone

from Someone Else's Songs by Dale Wicks

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Probably the most benevolent break-up song I've ever written. I can't tell whether the title line is snotty or a desperate mantra...on different days, it means different things to me.

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I never see the sun these days, even when it burns my skin
Surround myself with all my friends, but the loneliness still creeping in
I can't hear it, smell it, see it, but I feel it and it weighs a ton
Girl, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

These streets I'm walking these days always dump me off in divey bars
Where other lonesome sinners sit and sing and strum on their acoustic guitars
I strum myself and stay a bit; we'll ruminate and sing until the dawn
Singing "girl, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone"

I ain't saying that I'm special
Maybe I work better as a memory
But if absence makes the heart grow fonder
Lady, you won't ever see the end of me

When the truth is told by liars and the only light is from your cigarette
When the room is full of fire and your friends are standin' 'round 'cause they ain't seen it yet
I know you'll hold yourself together and you'll never let the cruel world keep you wrong
But girl, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

After all the barrooms close and all the little children go to bed
After all the tabs and scores are settled and everybody settles for what they get
You'll drift off thinking of me, and I think you'll think I may have been the one
Girl, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

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from Someone Else's Songs, released October 18, 2013

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