The chair is still warm as if you just sat there
In fact, you've been gone forever
Parting shot rings on the air
'Be right back, be right back'Household opera sung by faucets leaking
And refrigerator humming
My foot taps out the refrain
'Be right back, be right back'
In a stained apartment, in a parting glance
Under the wreckage, the best laid plans
In a field where no one's ever fought
Every twisted word comes out like prayer
Come lay down your bitter thoughts
Will you meet me there?
I'm your story, I'm the killing question,
I'm the broken china,
I'm the chair that's empty and still warm
I am all that, I am all that
Chorus
Is that your step, is that your step?
In the distance, drawing near, drawing near
Another year, another year's existence
There's no one here, no one here
I have stayed to see how tangled plot lines
End in peeling plaster
And how all the walls are falling down
'Be right back, be right back'
Chorus +:
In an empty field that lies beyond
All that's fair and unfair
When the bitterness is gone
Will you meet me there?
Will you meet me there?
Will you meet me there