When I'm Gone - Phil Ochs

作词：Ochs/Phil Ochs

There's no place in this world

Where i'll belong when i'm gone

And i won't know the right from

The wrong when i'm gone

And you won't find me singing

On this song when i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

And i won't feel the flowing of the time

When i'm gone

All the pleasures of love

Will not be mine when i'm gone

My pen won't pour out a lyric line

When i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

And i won't breathe the bracing air

When i'm gone

And i can't even worry about

My cares when i'm gone

Won't be asked to do my share

When i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

And i won't be running from the rain

When i'm gone

And i can't even suffer from the pain

When i'm gone

Can't say who's to praise

And who's to blame when i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

Won't see the golden of the sun

When i'm gone

And the evenings and the mornings

Will be one when i'm gone

Can't be singing louder

Than the guns when i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

All my days won't be dances of delight

When i'm gone

And the sands will be shifting from my sight

When i'm gone

Can't add my name into the fight

While i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

And i won't be laughing at the lies

When i'm gone

And i can't question how or when

Or why when i'm gone

Can't live proud enough to die

When i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here

There's no place in this world

Where i'll belong when i'm gone

And i won't know the right from the wrong

When i'm gone

And you won't find me singing

On this song when i'm gone

So i guess i'll have to do it

I guess i'll have to do it

Guess i'll have to do it

While i'm here