Take the whitewash to the mark
Take the fern frawn to the trace
Like darkness to the mind

The last one to recall your face
It's a falling in the end
From the pettiness of friends

Who won't even speak your name
'less that speaking brings them fame
But I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone

I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone
When the seagull steals my tongue
I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone

To live inside these eyes
Is to live in paradise
And the breaking of your bones

Makes them finally your own
When all I used to be
Is out drowning in the sea

And the thoughts inside my mind
Are out drifting in the pines
I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone

I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone
When my ladder's out of rung
I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone

I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone
I'm gonna miss me when I'm gone
When the seagull steals my tongue

I'm gonna miss those songs I song.