[Verse 1] The blue light from the microwave makes the kitchen look underwater You’re standing there in one sock reading the same sentence twice I’m somewhere else again you notice but you don’t say it The radiator kicks someone upstairs drags a chair three inches across the floor You say my name from the other room not loudly just enough [Chorus] After nothing happens you’re still there After nothing happens I come back [Bridge] I thought there would be a moment some clean dividing line before after hurt healed alone not alone But nothing announced itself No weather No sudden understanding Just your coat over my chair both of us tired both of us making room [Final Chorus] After nothing happens you’re still there After nothing happens I come back You go quiet I stop trying to fill it Tuesday becomes Wednesday without asking us and sometime after midnight your foot finds mine under the sheet not forgiveness not forever just checking without waking whether I’m still there I am
