Where Have You Gone?

My newish friend and sometime fellow concert-goer (eels and ingrid michaelson so far), S, is also a guitarist/singer. When I saw him play at a cafe' a couple of weeks ago, he did mostly covers, many of which I knew.

But there was one song I never heard before that really grabbed my attention. So I bugged him about it afterwards. Turns out he wrote it. Here's the lyrics - wish I had a way of sharing the tune, too, but it's unrecorded at present. It's one of those songs that, along with the music, paints a picture - this one of heartbreak.



These dreams I've been dreaming, they haunt my mind
I wake up and call your name
These streets I've been walking, they're cold and unkind
My footprints are etched in shame

Where have you gone, my beautiful girl
I'm calling your name out loud
Where have you run to, my mystery girl
I'm calling your name out loud

With pain as my shadow, the tears stain my face
Your memory chokes my brain
Regret and remorse keep me trapped in this place
Played over and over again

Where have you gone, my beautiful girl
I'm calling your name out loud
Where have you run to, my mystery girl
I'm calling your name out loud

A numbing denial from an eighty-proof sea
Keeps me safely away from the shore
The rocks, they stand as reminders to me
Of a past which I try to ignore

Where have you gone, my beautiful girl
I'm calling your name out loud
Where have you run to, my mystery girl
I'm calling your name out loud

I'm calling your name out loud
I'm calling your name out loud



----- by SQ.