From the recording When You're Not Here
“When You’re Not Here” is a tender reflection on absence, identity and the quiet ways love becomes part of who we are. As life continues unchanged on the outside, the song discovers that someone doesn’t have to stay to never truly leave.
Lyrics
How can all things keep moving
Like nothing's changed it all?
Why does every passing moment
Never seem to pause?
Who keeps moving through this house
When half of me is gone?
How can every room stay standing
Like you've never been at all?
Maybe distance doesn't change the world
Maybe it changes what I see
Who am I. when you're not here?
Why do all things seem so clear?
The days roll on, the lights still shine
Yet something's missing deep inside
Who am I. when you're not here?
Why does silence draw so near?
All things still know their place
Except the part that wears your face
Why do I turn to say your name
Before I know you're gone?
Why does every little thought
Still ask where you belong?
It's not that I can't stand alone
Or find my own way through
It's just the world feels different now
Cause it once held you
Maybe love is not the space
Between two holding hands
Maybe love is what remains
When life goes on as planned
Maybe missing someone isn't pain
Maybe it's remembering
How quietly they became
Part of everything
Who am I. when you're not here?
Maybe now it's finally clear
You never took a part of me
You helped me find who I could be
Cause somehow. every day
Part of you still walks with me
And maybe that's enough
To know love never had to stay
To never leave.