Since I Don't Have You

The singer describes life after someone has left. Without this person, he feels he has lost not only love but also his plans, hopes, pleasures, and sense of happiness. The feeling grows from a list of missing things into a stark belief that happiness may never return. The repeated “you” at the end keeps attention fixed on the absent person.

“Since I don’t have you” links the breakup to everything the singer feels is missing. This suggests that the relationship had become the center of his emotional life, though it may also reflect how grief makes a loss seem all-encompassing. “When you walked out on me” presents the departure as a clear turning point. “In walked old misery” personifies misery as a visitor who arrives and stays, making sadness feel like a constant presence.

The lyrics are direct and repetitive, which can make the singer’s pain sound both sincere and absolute. His claim that he will never be happy again may express how hopeless he feels now, rather than a certain prediction about his future. The song leaves open whether he truly has nothing else in life or whether heartbreak has narrowed his view until the lost relationship seems to be everything.