[Verse 1 - Presence] Every day Same hour Same rooms Same lights We come alive somewhere after midnight You lean against the doorway like you always do I leave a space beside me, knowing you’ll come through Shared-bed stories of the places we might go Things we never needed anyone else to know Our worlds kept on turning somewhere out of sight But at night we have each other In your arms, all feels right [Pre-Chorus] Yeah, but you can’t count on that Tomorrow has never made a promise You just get used to coming back [Chorus] So I leave the line open Leave the last word waiting there Leave the light on in the window Like you could appear There are things I meant to tell you I thought we still had time So I leave the line open I leave the line- [Verse 2 - Absence] One night becomes another then another after that I look for you in the place where you always sat At first I think you’re busy Then I wonder where you’ve been Then every sound becomes the sound of you coming back again Run the same old ritual Smile at everyone I meet Everybody else is moving You’re somewhere we cannot meet I search the empty hours like there’s something I could find Some forgotten door between us somewhere I could get inside [Pre-Chorus] Yeah, but nobody said you could ever count on that Tomorrow has never made a promise You just never thought to ask [Chorus] So I leave the line open Leave the last word waiting there Leave the light on in the window Like you could appear There are things I meant to tell you Things I thought we still had time So I leave the line open I leave the line- [Bridge - Beyond the Screen] Then I find your name and it belongs to somewhere else A room we never entered A shadow I never knew People standing close around you Whole lives they shared with you And somewhere beyond the signal beyond the names that we wore Someone turned out the light forever closed the door I only knew you here, love In Oblivion we chose to live Some may say it wasn’t you But you gave all you could give I write these words to you in a manner you would know I write to say I love you though I know you already know You were stolen from me, my love Disenfranchised grief I’m happy and I miss you Real life is just a thief But it was you It was you [Verse 3 - What Remains] Now your name stays dark but I still know where you stand I read the letters that you left and clutch them in my hand Sometimes I catch myself turning when someone speaks your name Some small borrowed gesture that refuses to decay We were real here Whatever here became Whatever worlds go silent I will still know your name There are things that disappear There are things we cannot hold But even Oblivion can’t constrain the soul [Pre-Chorus] Maybe I was wrong about what I could count on You were here That happened Nothing gets to take that from us now [Final Chorus] So I leave the line open Leave the last word waiting there Leave the light on in the window though I know you won’t appear There are things I finally told you There are things that needed time So I leave the line open like a hand across the divide And if somewhere past the signal something of you still replies I’ll leave the line open I’ll see you when it’s time [OUTRO] I’ll leave the line open I’ll see you when it’s time I’ll see you when it’s time
