Lyrics:

(Mary Chapin Carpenter) She threw her purse upon the bed She looked around and shook her head There's really nothing left she said There's nothing I ain't done She wore her favorite dress tonight She hoped her hair would catch the light And you just sat there getting tight On double shots of rum You don't care what people say They're gonna do it anyway You don't hear what you don't use It's always been the same old news You don't beg and you don't plead Or miss a thing that you don't need She knew by the way you kissed her When she's gone, you won't miss her Morning comes on an old cat's paw And when the sun hits the wall The light's as bright was it ever was After or before And you wince as waking pounds your head And you drag your arm across the bed And the tangled sheets and the twisted spread Fall onto the floor And the kitchen table finds you silent If you had a thought now you can't find it You take a long draw on your smoke And taste your coffee growing cold She didn't beg and she didn't plead She knew exactly how to leave The way she knew when you kissed her When she's gone you won't miss her She didn't beg and she didn't plead She knew exactly when to leave They way she knew as you kissed her When she's gone you won't miss her