Standard (EADGBE)
Verse 1
In the stick-count for the song of knowing you're gone
Glancing up at where you lived when you lived here
I see you suddenly alive and nearly smiling
Stop and hold my breath and watch the way you used to be
Chorus
The full moon makes our faces shine like over-ironed polyester
Then disappears behind the clouds
And leaves me under empty rows of night windows
Verse 2
We could walk to where these streets get pulled together
A blinking line with gravel shoulders squared towards an end
Where the radio resounds from doppling traffic
Where the power lines steal esses from the hourly news
Chorus
De-pluralize our casualties and drown the generals out in static
We'd turn and watch our city sprawl
And send us signals in the glow of night windows
Outro
But you're not coming home again
And I won't ever get to say
"Remember how... I'm sorry that... I miss the way... Could we..."
End on
Intro bass line and guitar riff after chorus