I'm Not There

Things are crashing down
 She's all too tight
 In my neighborhood
 She cried both day and night
 I know it because it was there
 It's a milestone
 But she's down on her luck
 And the day makes her lonely
 But to make it hard to buck, now and then
 I believe that she'd stop him
 If she would start to care
 I believe that she'd look upon
 His side that used to care
 And I'd go by the Lord
 Anywhere she's on my way
 But I don't belong there
 No I don't belong to her
 I don't belong to any body
 She's my Christ-forsaken angel
 But she don't hear me cry
 She's a lone-hearted mystic
 And she can't carry on
 When I'm there, she's all right
 But she's not when I'm gone
 Heaven knows that the answer
 She don't calling no one
 She's the way, forsaken beauty
 For she's mine, for the one
 And I lost her, hesitation
 By temptation as it runs
 But she don't holler me
 But I'm not there, I'm gone
 Now I'll cry tonight
 Like I cried the night before
 And I'm knees on the hassle
 But I'll dream about the door
 It's so long, she's forsaken
 By her faith, worse to tell
 It don't have contonation
 She smiles, fare thee well
 Now when I treat to leave 'er
 I was born to love her
 But she knows that the kingdom awaits
 So high above her
 And I run a better race
 But it's not too fast still
 But I don't perceive her
 I'm not there, I'm gone
 Well it's all about diffusion
 And I cry for her veil
 I don't need anybody now
 Beside me to tell
 And it's all affirmation
 I receive but it's not
 She's a lone-hearted beauty
 But she don't like a spot
 And she calls
 Yeah, she's gone like the rain
 Below the shining yesterday
 But now she's home beside me
 And I'd like her here to stay
 She's a lone, forsaken beauty
 And it don't trust anyone
 And I wish I was beside her
 But I'm not there, I'm gone
 Well, it's too hard to stay here
 And I don't want to leave
 It's so bad, for so few
 See, but she's a heart too hard to need
 It's alone, it's a crime
 The way she mauls me around
 But she don't fall to hate me
 But tears are gone, a painted clown
 Yes, I believe that it's rightful
 Oh, I believe it in my mind
 I've been told like I said one night before
 Carry on the cryin'
 And the sole gypsy told her
 Like I said, carry on
 I wish I was there to help her
 But I'm not there, I'm gone