Description
Performed here by the composer (Nigel Tasane (a.k.a. “Tasse”) on alto recorder with David W Solomons on alto voice and guitar
When you’re gone
My room knows only silence
Only the faint echo of your voice
Only the remembered outline of your body
Lives on in that space
That space that held you and I*
for such a precious time
yet quietly, when I close my eyes
and give the room darkness
you linger on and on.
(*Some may prefer to sing the more grammatical “me”, but this is how it was performed in 1987).