My Baby's Gone

You gotta weep, you gotta wail You gotta drag yourself on hands and knees Bleedin' another mile along the trail You gotta laugh in the face of the devil, he's hanging on to your shirt tail You gotta hold down the lid of the coffin, hammer in the last nail My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me You gotta live, you gotta learn How to find your way to the end of the night When there's nowhere left to turn How to keep the last embers of the fire alight when there's nothin' left to burn How to say goodbye to the ashes that fly from the cheap metal urn My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me She said, "Go to sleep, you gotta save Your anger and rage for the livin' 'cause they're no damn good in the grave Don't waste your time on forgivin' the ones who just don't know how to behave There's Heaven and Hell in the world that you live in But I'm in a different place My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me My baby's gone so far away She's never comin' back to me