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When You're Not Around

by Powder Jones

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Sometimes you lose a friend, & it seems to affect you way more than everyone else. It is isolating enough to suffer that loss, but feeling alone in how significantly it impacts your life is even worse.

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(They'll say a prayer)

They'll say a prayer, & act as if you're there,
but in the end, nobody really cares at all.
When you're not around.

They'll speak your name, play the crying game.
"Oh, what a shame!" - But they don't take the blame at all.
When you're not around.

Your dying day will be just another day.
No gestures made, no sense of obligations at all.
When you're not around.

What you say, what you do, only memories.
Even then, they'll forget you existed at all.
When you're not around.

(When you're not around X2)

Time marches on.
Nobody's life has stopped but your own.
You're just a passing thought that comes with songs.
Or, you're gone.

There may be one, which isn't very much.
But better some than none who remember you're gone.
When you're not around.

Every day, passing by, still they're asking why.
Broken inside, as they cannot believe that you're gone.
When you're not around.

If I'm a friend to the end, then let's carry on.
You'll live through me so it won't be as if you're gone.
When you're not around.

My ego died, & my pride along for the ride.
You were a better man than me yet they don't care that you're gone.
So what will happen when I'm not around?

(When you're not around)

Time marches on.
Nobody's life has stopped but your own.
You're just a passing thought that comes with songs.
Or, you're gone.

(When you're not around X2)

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released August 11, 2022

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Powder Jones Lexington, South Carolina

Alternative hip-hop artist/producer hailing from NY, residing in SC. Sonically a mesh of old & new, with lyrics whose themes frequently focus both on mental health & reckless abandon.

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