I can't shake off this dark cloud It seems like it's been the only thing in my life for years What's the point in being here When life is spent asking that question over again? Changing your surroundings It won't do you any good Cause you carry this with you If we had the choice between All the things you left us Or having you here with us now If we had the choice between All the things you left us Or having you here now What would we choose? Did you think this soil would change its properties Just because you took it to a garden further south? I can't stay in, I can't go out This feeling follows me about When you never even knew me How can you claim to feel any pain? Thing's didn't go wrong - they just changed And when I felt it coming on again... If we had the choice between All the things you left us Or having you here with us now If we had the choice between All the things you left us Or having you here now What would we choose? We only want you here so you can give us more That's why we're sad We want songs like you wrote before And is your death really any worse Than any other boy or girl's When we never even knew you? So come back, come back But you won't come back Cause you can't come back! If you had the choice between All the things you left us Or being with us now What would you choose?