COME OUT [Intro – whispered, distant] One, two, three, four [Female harmony] Let him go... Five, six, seven more [Male] Come out [Female] Come out... [Verse 1 – male lead] I don't want his ghost in your bed I don't want his words in your head I don't want his hands in your dreams Pulling at the spaces in between [Female – soft response] Wash him out [Male] From your skin [Female] Wash him out [Male] Let me in [Chorus – male + layered female harmony] There has to be another touch [Female] Another touch... There has to be another love [Female] Another love... Say his name and watch it burn [Female] Let it burn... What he had won't return [Post-Chorus – call & response] [Male] Come out [Female] Come out [Male] Come clean [Female] Come clean [Male] Who do you see? [Female, close whisper] Only you... [Verse 2 – male, restrained] Open the window, kill the light Draw a little circle tonight Salt on the floor, smoke in the air Tell me you don't feel him there [Female harmony] Not anymore... Not anymore... [Male] Give me back the room he took Every photograph, every look I don't need to know what he knew I just want to teach your body something new [Chorus – fuller harmonies] There has to be another touch [Female] Another touch... There has to be another love [Female] Another love... Say his name and watch it burn [Female] Let it burn... What he had won't return [Bridge – ritual call & response, building] [Male] Who lives here? [Female] I do [Male] Who owns you? [Female] I do [Male] Who's behind you? [Female] No one [Male] Who's beside you? [Female, intimate] You... [All – harmonised, rising] Let him go Let him go Let him go [High female harmony] Out of me... Let him go Let him go [Male whisper] Into me [Final Chorus – wide stacked vocals] There has to be another touch There has to be another love [Female counter-vocal] Cleanse me, cleanse me No more shadows on the wall [Female] I don't see him there at all [Outro – almost a cappella] [Male] Come out [Female] He's gone [Male] Come out [Female] He's gone [Male, whispered] Are you clean? [Female, very close] Come and see. [Epilogue – female vocals only, intimate close-mic, calm and sensual] [Female voice softly] I feel different. [Pause] [Female voice,very close] Lighter somehow. [Small breath, almost a laugh] [Female voice very close] Funny... I thought I'd miss it. [Female voice very close] [Whisper] I don't. [Pause] [Female voice very close] Come closer......No... closer than that. [Soft laugh] That's better. [Long pause – almost whispered] [Female voice very close] I think I'm ready now. [Breath] [Female voice, very close] Turn off the light. [Music fading, layered female whispers] *He's out...* [Whisper harmonies, drifting wider] *Out... out... out... out...Out... out... out... out...*Out... out... out... out...*Out... out... out... out...out*
