Oh boy, when you're gone, you are gone Those nights you wander all night You won't get to relive them Or even to explain them To your next of kin They come one, After the other, after the other Just like herring bone Oh, oh, oh oh Way out there where the tide meets the tide Those nights you'd get so quiet You won't get to enjoy them Or even to explain them To your next of kin They come one, After the other, after the other Just like herring bone Oh, oh, oh oh And I know you like herring bone Yeah, I know you like herring bone Through the cold you've held on with The one you went to went to war with The only word you can't explain