[Intro] Back of the chair Wool and the dark You are not in it It still has your shape [Verse 1] You left it like you would be back in a minute One arm inside out, collar chewed by your hair I have walked this room a hundred times and I still do it I stop I look I do not sit there It is not even a good sweater, that is the joke Pilled at the wrist, a stain you swore was paint It holds the kitchen late and the cider and the smoke It holds a month I am trying not to name [Pre-Chorus] I could fold it I could put it away I do neither I let it stay [Chorus] The sweater on your chair Is doing your job It keeps a body In a room we do not talk The sweater on your chair Has more of you than I do I sleep around it Like a man walking through [Verse 2] I picked it up once and I put it right back down The chair looked wrong, the room looked like a theft You would notice, that is the lie I walk around You have not lived here In any honest sense Still it smells like the coat when the coat is not here Still it leans like your shoulder when you listened half-mad I talk to wool like wool can keep a year And wool just sits Being the best thing I have [Pre-Chorus] I could fold it I could put it away I do neither I let it stay [Chorus] The sweater on your chair Is doing your job It keeps a body In a room we do not talk The sweater on your chair Has more of you than I do I sleep around it Like a man walking through [Verse 3] People would laugh if they knew what I refuse to move A chair, a knit, a ghost with a neck I would laugh too if it did not feel like proof That you were late once And the late never left So it stays through the dust and it stays through the mail It stays through the days I pretend I am clean I eat at the counter I do not use that rail I leave you a seat In a life in between [Bridge] This is not romance This is not a shrine This is a piece of you I can see in time If you came back You would take it and go And the chair would be a chair And I would have to know [Breakdown] Don't touch it Don't fold it Don't make it neat Let the sleeves Keep the shape Of a girl In a seat [Chorus] The sweater on your chair Is doing your job It keeps a body In a room we do not talk The sweater on your chair Has more of you than I do I sleep around it Like a man walking through [Final Chorus] The sweater on your chair If you want it, say the word I will hate the empty wood I will give it, I have heard The sweater on your chair Is the last honest stay Take it Or leave me The shape of that day [Outro] Chair Wool Room Wait I do not sit I do not take I just Stay
