The Absentees
Jan 30, 2019, 05:34 PM
Song performed by Music Director at Historyworks, Mario Satchwell, a poignant song about gaps in our lives, the missing spaces where people used to be. Commissioned by Historyworks with lyrics by Michael Rosen, and musical composition by Kirsty Martin.
THE ABSENTEES
There are gaps
there are blanks
in the house
of my life
there's a face
nothing more
something gone
from my life
She was here
he was there
in the rooms of my life
there's a place
for them both
in the words of my life.
There are gaps
there are blanks
in the house of my life