Darling, give me
  Your absence tonight
  Take the shade from
  The canvas and
  Leave me the white
  Let me sink in the
  Silence that echoes inside
  And don't bother
  Leaving the light on
  'Cause I suddenly feel
  Like a different person
  From the roots of my soul
  Come a gentle coercion
  And I ran my hand
  O'er a strange inversion
  A vacancy that just
  Did not belong
  The child is gone
  Honey help me
  Out of this mess
  I'm a stranger to myself
  But don't reach for me
  I'm too far away
  I don't wanna talk
  'Cause there's
  Nothing left to say
  So my
    Darling, give me
  Your absence tonight
  Take all of your sympathy
  And leave it outside
  'Cause there's no kind
  Of loving that can
  Make this all right
  I'm trying to find
  A place I belong
  And I suddenly feel
  Like a different person
  From the roots of my soul
  Come a gentle coersion
  And I ran my hand
  O'er a strange inversion
  As the darkness
  Turns into the dawn
  The child is gone
  The child is gone