who’s gonna hold you warm and tight
thru the cold and the black of night
and when the storm cloud’s hangin round your head
who’s gonna know what to say to ease ya out of it

who’s gonna be your hero when your scared
and when the party’s over who’s gonna help you
clean up the mess, zip up the back of your dress
who’s gonna know when no means no and when no means yes

girl you’re gonna regret everything that you said
and you’ll know you were wrong
WHEN YOU’RE GONE, gone, WHEN YOU’RE GONE

one day you’ll find yourself somebody new
but he won’t love you half as well as i do
seven months, give or take, just to break him in
now why in the world would you wanna go thru all of that again

though you try to pretend, starting over again
is much easier said than done
WHEN YOU’RE GONE, gone, WHEN YOU’RE GONE

you’ll be sorry when you realize
what you had, what you lost
you’ll remember when you’re gone

you better take a good look at what you’re losing

you’ll look back on the day when you threw it all away
and you’ll wonder how you ever let a good thing go so wrong,
when you’re gone
(you should have listened, but you didn’t)
(now look what you did, that was stupid)