Down the street I hear the laughter of the children at their play In their universe the gods are gods of kindness And I can't help but remember, what you sometimes used to say That we seems to have a need sometimes for blindness All the signs were there that you were gonna go But somehow I seemed to be the last to know And the missing you gets harder every day And the memories come crowding in fools' way 'Til the only thing that I know how to do Is the missing you Is the missing you Now the telephone is silent, and the mailman passes by No one comes around and I can't really blame them If they saw how much I miss you, how it hurts too much to cry Well, they're old friends, and it couldn't help but shame them All the signs were there that you were gonna go But somehow I seemed to be the last to know And the missing you gets harder every day And the memories come crowding in fools' way 'Til the only thing that I know how to do Is the missing you Is the missing you Oh, I somehow failed to notice, in the days gone by How the world went on around me, and it never caught my eye Now, I don't know where I was; I don't know what I was trying to do But all the time by inches, I was losing you And the missing you gets harder every day And the memories come crowding in fools' way 'Til the only thing that I know how to do Is the missing you Is the missing you Oh, the only thing that I know how to do Is the missing you Is the missing you