"While You Were Gone" genre: Soft Rock
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	This is an angry love song about being taken advantage of.
	MP3.com CD: Pieces - buy it! Label: SmartSownd Credits: Vocals and Sequence: Jeannie Kramer /// drums: Robert Place /// guitar: Jeremy Zuckerman
	Story Behind the Song This is an angry love song about being taken advantage of, but knowing that karma will fulfill your revenge. "I was here while you were gone" means that while my X was incarcerated (it was a long time ago), I suffered and flourished through some key growing years in the free world, which led me to realize how severely he had done me wrong. But I didn't learn enough to stay away. What happened upon his being released was the final straw in him taking everything that was special to me. I wrote the first version of this song many years after forgiving him for that. (This is the second version.) The first version has much more of a sense of still having feelings for him. This song expresses the anger much more. I try to be angry so I can move through pain and get to the place where I don't care anymore. I am still up in the air about it. I could rewrite this song a million times and it would never be done. Lyrics You hold back the pain, but I know you're sad The things you've done to me keep you away You know I could have gotten back what you took from me But I chose to wait I know someday you'll pay Please don't play games, we've played quite enough games I can see through your act I know you did it to me And you know what you do is wrong You may have done your time But you have not done mine You may be strong But I was here While you were gone Too young to know, too hurt to care I gave you everything Everything I had to give But while you were gone I was treated right I opened my eyes I began to live Please don't deny that you lied, what you did I can see through you now I know you did it to me And you know what you do is wrong You may have done your time But you have not done mine You may be strong But I was here While you were gone While you were gone I grew strong While you were gone You did not learn, no you did not learn While you were gone I lived on While you were gone While you were gone

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