Eighteen years since we set sail Wiped your tears and read you tales Unsure if we'd succeed or fail An uncharted course We didn't have a light or compass Or the best advice it was just Blind love and luck Pointing you north Now You're Gone Now You're Gone And it will take all of your life To figure out what I did right and I did wrong Now you're gone I'm my mother's daughter She thought everybody oughta do things Just the way she she thought they should and Never held her tongue Just like me well there she'd be A safety net in the wings for me With a bandaid and a buck And advice for everyone But now she's gone Now she's gone And it will take all of my life To figure out what I did right and I did wrong Now she's gone Oh we wonder and we worry When you stumble and you fall Maybe too much in a hurry To come when you call Oh there's nothing we can do It's what this kind of love is all about I'm the mom for worse or better Right or wrong I'm yours forever Phone & talk or write a letter Never let it go too long But in a year or four you could be standing at the door And you will hear a different chorus for this song You're not gone You're not gone And it will take all of my life To figure out what I did right and I did wrong If You're not gone