You Learn to Live Without

　　You Learn to Live Without - Idina Menzel

　　You learn to take your coffee black

　　You learn to drink your whiskey neat

　　You learn to take your shower cold

　　And sleep on tired feet

　　You learn to order dinner in

　　You learn to send the laundry out

　　You learn how to amuse yourself

　　You learn to live without

　　You tell yourself you’re rich at last

　　in money and in time

　　You draw a bath and then unplug the phone

　　You pour yourself a Pinot Clo Du Val 2003

　　You sit a spell a queen upon her throne

　　You go to bed alone

　　You learn to fall asleep alone

　　You learn to silence ticking clocks

　　You learn to pull the shades at night

　　And double check the locks

　　You learn to speak so calmly when

　　Your heart would like to scream and shout

　　You learn to stock and breathe and smile

　　You learn to live without

　　You find the coat and tie you thought

　　you'd given to good will

　　You toss his favourite shoes onto the pile

　　You see him in the faces of the boys he left behind

　　And I have been with every tiny smile,

　　but only for a while

　　You learn to count the quiet wins

　　An hour with no unprompted tears

　　And not to count the deadly days

　　As they fade into years

　　You learn to stand alone at last

　　So brave and bold and strong and stout

　　You learn somehow to like the dark

　　And even love the doubt

　　You learn to hold your life inside you

　　And never let it out

　　You learn to live and die and then to live

　　You learn to live without

　　You learn to live without

　　You learn to live without