Jan Gillies - Gone

Gone Jan Gillies

1. Safe in your fortress, with thick walls of stone
Guarding the treasures that you think you own
With layers of lies, to bury the cries
No way in, or out, so I’m gone
Chorus:
Gone, like lonely in the night
Gone, like the child too young to fight
Gone, like the sense of wrong & right
I can’t live in that world, so I’m gone.

2. The sickness still grows, and gnaws deep inside
And everyone knows what you think you can hide
Fear of the future, as you rewrite the past
No way to get through, so I’m gone
(chorus)

Bridge:
It’s your right to be wrong; weakness, being strong
Your anger that drives me away
With no way to break through, and reach out to you
A war with no winners, just “gone”

3. Secure in the knowledge that your way is true
Not caring your ‘treasure’, actually owns you
Assuming that’s all anyone would value
But I can’t agree, so I’m gone.

(chorus –with alternate last line:
Can’t live in that world, I’ve got one of my own.