Counting The Missing

[Instrumental] [Verse] Looking for the missing number as my memory allowed me to remember can I survive and retrace those shape from the scattered dust that ruin of the sky has left [Pre-Chorus] I count the names I used to know but some don’t answer anymore I start again, I start too slow like maybe I just said it wrong [Chorus] One… two… three… you’re supposed to be here with me four… five… I try… but numbers change and I don’t know why six… seven… wait… did I lose you yesterday? eight… nine… ten… can I start from one again? [Verse 2] There’s empty spaces in our line I leave a gap to keep them right the teacher said to stay in place in case they come and find their way [Pre-Chorus] We waited where the trucks should be just dust arrived, not anything they said that help was on its way I think it must have lost our name [Chorus] One… two… three… I hear them counting next to me four… five… six… but when I turn, it doesn’t stick seven… eight… nine… maybe I just changed the line ten… and then… I’m lost… how much counting does it cost? [Bridge] If I remember every name do they come back if I don’t change? if I keep counting, never stop do they stay somewhere I can’t look? maybe they’re hiding in the sound between the numbers, not aloud maybe they wait for me to say the one I always get wrong anyway [Final Chorus] One… two… three… I whisper so they don’t leave me four… five… please stay… I won’t skip any name today six… seven… I try… but something’s missing every time eight… nine… ten… I’ll just keep counting… till they’re back again