House Without a Heart - Janis Ian

I can do what I want, choose where to haunt

I live like a ghost in this town

See a movie at one, go to sleep with the sun

Knowing you won’t be around

All the familiar places

All of the smiling faces

They ask me how you are

I tell them you are far away

But you’re coming home soon

They smile and walk away

Leaving me alone to say

That I’m lost without you

I miss you more than yesterday

More than words can say

More than hands can pray

I should have known it from the start

That whenever we’re apart

I’m just a house without a heart

I can stay out all night, leave on every light

Throw all the coupon books away

I can lock out the cat, she can live off her fat

I never liked her anyway

I miss you more than yesterday

More than words can say

More than hands can pray

I should have known it from the start

That whenever we’re apart

I’m just a house without a heart

And hearts break without a sound

And nobody sees

The heart you are holding now

Is on its knees

I miss you more than yesterday

More than words can say

More than hands can pray

I should have known it from the start

That whenever we’re apart

I’m just a house without a heart