Ben Watt

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

I've seen love go by my door, but
It's never been this close before
Never been this easy or this slow

I've been shooting in the dark too long
When something's not right, it's wrong
Gonna make me lonesome when you go

Dragon clouds so high above
I've only known careless love
It's always hit me from below
This time around it's more correct
Right on target, so direct
Gonna make me lonesome when you go

Purple clover, Queen Anne lace
Crimson hair across your face
You gonna make me cry if you don't know
Can't remember what I was thinkin' of
But you might be spoilin' me too much, love
Gonna make me lonesome when you go

Flowers on the hillside, bloomin' crazy
Crickets talkin' back and forth in rhyme
Blue river runnin' slow and lazy
I could stay with you forever
And never realize the time

Situations have ended sad
Relationships have all been bad
Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud
But there's no way they can compare
All those scenes to this affair
Gonna make me lonesome when you go

Gonna make me wonder what I'm doin'
Stayin' far behind without you
Gonna make me wonder what I'm sayin', no
You gonna make me give myself a good talkin' to
I'll look for you in old Honolulu
San Francisco, Ashtabula
Gonna have to leave me now, I know
But I'll see you in the sky above
In the tall grass, in the ones I love
Gonna make me lonesome when you go
Gonna make me lonesome when you go
Gonna make me lonesome when you go

Ben Watt is a musician, singer-songwriter, DJ and writer. He released his first EP Summer Into Winter in 1982, collaborating with Robert Wyatt. In 1983 his debut album, North Marine Drive reached the UK Independent Albums Chart Top 10.

He then spent the next seventeen years with Tracey Thorn in best-selling duo Everything But The Girl, recording nine studio albums and selling nine million records. He survived a rare life-threatening illness in 1992 – the subject of his first memoir in 1996. Everything But The Girl went on indefinite hiatus in 2000.

In 2013 – after ten years as a DJ, remixer, BBC radio presenter and boss of Buzzin' Fly (the award-winning electronic label he founded in 2003) – he changed direction to return to the solo career he put on hold in the early eighties. Since then he has written and released three further acclaimed albums and a second prize-nominated memoir.

From the album

North Marine Drive (1983)

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