After having a wee discussion with Mr Nighthawk I decided to spend an hour updating this before going to work, so here is the new and hopefully improved version. I've left the other one up too for comparisons.
https://soundcloud.com/stookiebhoy/gone-rethought-remixed-and-remasteredOk number 2 in the list of possibilities. Written a couple of months ago and is not about what people perceive the song to be about, which is deliberate on my part, so you can speculate if you like
Dead simple wee country folk song which was a 1 take special so I know there's sync and production issues, but the heart of the song is there, and is as finished as it's going to be before possibly going to the studio.
Hope you all enjoy it, comments, reviews, and critique much appreciated.
Mark
https://soundcloud.com/stookiebhoy/goneGone
I heard a whisper on the breeze
The years have flown just like the birds up in the trees
This castle built with sweat and tears
Has crumbled round us realising all our fears
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Take a look at all the damage that you’ve done
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone away
I watched the sun begin to fade
The shadows grow around the plans that we both made
The letters carved inside the stone
The hollow portrait starving down to skin and bone
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
And I can’t believe the damage that you’ve done
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone away
The eerie silence fills the damp and dusty air
An unmade bed we used to lay
And in the corner an abandoned rocking chair
Is now a life in slow decay
The castle’s empty now and cold
There’s nothing left except the ghosts of days of old
The door is hanging by a thread
The dreams behind it all imprisoned in my head
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Do you realise the damage that you’ve done
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone away
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Take a look at all the damage that you’ve done
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Where there used to be a reason now there’s none
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone away