Where a Life Goes - Bettye LaVette

What’s it like

Who you are?

Are you young and beautiful again?

Is it sadness that filled up your life?

Find the liquor and wash it away

Did you ever think about us?

Back here in this world of tears and dust

Go one I’ll keep your secret if you must

Where a life goes?

What’s it like when you wake up?

Do you even sleep?

Do you wonder where you are?

Do you feel the yellow sun?

Are you walkin' on streets of cold?

Are you laughin' like a child?

And the million tears you cry

You are long and finally satisfied

Where a life goes?

I think of all the things that I miss

The richest and the cloudless blue

I know just how you live your life

And you deserve so much more

Than you ever knew

Are you flowing round somewhere there?

I reach your care

With all the love that you can bare

Where a life goes?

In this lonely world we’re lost

On an angry seed we’re tossed

But you my dear

You made it safe across

Where, where

Where, where

Where a life goes?