They pulled my name once before saying that I was to blame I had heard them then as I do now, I ignore them just the same There's a lotta places I could die but it won't be Michigan I am gone I am gone once again It was raining hard outside the walls of the Sunset Motel We had struck a deal at the liquor store but I guess that went to hell I didn't mind that he robbed me there but he knew where I had been So I am gone, yes, I am gone once again Yea, some days you feel outnumbered Other days just spin I have faded every memory with the ink under my skin There are whispers of my innocence silenced by my sin I am gone I must be gone once again I took comfort when she recognized me standing by the door She was weighted down from behind the eyes As she walked across the floor She said "I don't need too much from anyone but I needed you then But you were gone" Yes, I was gone, but I'm back again You could tell she was in trouble by the way she closed her door And her place was filled with rubble from a life once lived before Then she gestured with her fingers to outside the sounds of men She said " You were gone you must be gone once again" Well sometimes I recite my regrets other times I grin At the thoughts of my relationships and the states that they're in You can choose to keep on running but you will never win I've been gone time and time again She said "they knew the kind of shape I was in with my daughter and my boy They had offered to help me outta here, I didn't have a choice But I've been bleeding with regret since the moment you walked in Now you must go through the window in the den" My dear they'll surely string you dead if they find you here alone The greatest thing I've found with time is that it's mine to own Then I lowered her out the window and said goodbye my friend You get gone, we'll meet up one day again Some days it makes no difference Other days I pray Bout the path where I am headed From the tracks that I have laid I know where I am bound there will be mercy in the end So I am gone, yes I am gone once again