Strangest Places

It's the hair tie left in my car
A tag found in a box
A long forgotten message
About your "stupid long locks"
It's the single brown hair
On the cast aside shirt
It's hard to decide
Which to remember first

I see you everywhere
Pieces of you in strangers' faces
I keep finding these things
Traces of you in the strangest places

I cherish the pain
It makes you feel so near
Missing you all the time
Just proof that you were here
I can't wrap my mind
Around "you're gone..."
They ask me how you are doing
Makes the road seem so long

I see you everywhere
Pieces of you in strangers' faces
I keep finding these things
Traces of you in the strangest places

Bridge
I close my eyes
And I see a face
So familiar
But I can't place
I hope it's you
But I'm so jaded
It's been so long
My memory has faded

I see you everywhere
Pieces of you in strangers' faces
I keep finding these things
Traces of you in the strangest places

This is SO GOOD!!I'd like to hear the "backstory"on this,it's that interesting!All my songs about breaking up or love lost are about two girls.This is so familiar,the story close to home.Read the other version,I like this one the best..........by a long shot!

@Doug... She fills my dreams... But she's several states away.... We spent a week together earlier this year and it was amazing... I've known her for so long and I can't believe I let her get away... She left her hair tie in my car the last night we were together and it hangs from my mirror now... there was one of her hairs on my shirt when i went to do the wash... I found a tag from her bra (long story...) from when we were in high school in a box not too long ago... I find traces of her in the strangest places... But she's gone...

this is excellent. I would like to see another piece of info in the bridge though...You are repeating the same thing as the rest of the lyric, give something quirky another piece of info, the oh yeah and this....to tie it all up before the chorus.

Really nice writing.

Thank you KathyB.... I actually just found something else that could work... Just gotta write it in... LOL!

Beautiful.
' I keep find these things,traces of you in the strangest places' simply awesome.

Good job on this. I love the chorus especially!