Always Already Gone - The Magnetic Fields

I tried hard to keep you

I needn’t have tried

It seems you’d decided

When did you decide?

So this is the last time

I cry in the dawn

It seems you were always

Always already gone

You never were happy

You had to be free

You took all the freedom

You needed from me

Then you and your freedom

Flew thither and yon

You’re free to be always

Always already gone

I couldn’t have dreamed you

But I might as well

You leave me with only

A story to tell

But at the beginning

Our story is done

Because you were always

Always already gone

Always already gone