Absence

The absence of love is the absence of everything
As if there is no rebirth in the spring
A beautiful bird that can't even sing
The warmth of tears that sting,

The absence of air and I'm exiled in space
Far removed from your perfume and lace
Where there was love not a trace
Sometimes I could just give up on the chase,

Time is not waiting for me
That's the way it is and I see
I feel like a bottle drifing in the sea
Lost like the love I thought would save me,

When I awake in the middle of the night
That poltergeist from out of sight
That nightmare of loneliness bringing fright
A world where things are not quite right,

The absence of humanity all too real
Not what you know but how you feel
That's why I just have to kneel
To keep my ship on an even keel,

There are things you can't believe in
Like lovers with hearts of tin
Those too self righteous to sin
Never learning from where they've been,

The absence of truth you might say
Will haunt us all night and day
When the lying soothsayers have their way
Baby that's when you're going to pay,

In a world that makes my stomach turn
How did this happen was it something I earned?
That's right man, we all get burned
Who among us is spiritually discerned?

In absence of faith of anything at all
You can't walk before you crawl
You can't learn if your eye's not on the ball
Fear I'm headed for the final fall,

The absence of love is the absence of everything
As if there is no rebirth in the spring
A beautiful bird that can't even sing
The warmth of tears that sting.