[Intro - hum and melodica in unison, vinyl crackle, four bars] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm... Mm-hmm, mm-hmm... [Verse 1 - flat low drawl, behind the beat, dub delay on line ends, no guitar] Woke up in the third person, watching me get dressed. Narrating my own morning like I'm reading someone's text. There's a guy who wears my jacket and he answers to my name and he's better at my life than I am — and I let him. That's the trade. I been floating over rooms since I was probably about nine. Doctor gave it a word. I gave it more time. And the word didn't change it, and the time didn't either. So I hummed it. I hummed it. That's the only thing that ever reached me. [Pre-Chorus - drums drop out, bass and voice] They say "hey — where'd you go?" I say "I never left." Which is a lie, and it's also the whole truth. [Chorus - live kit slams in, fuzzed two-note riff, half-yelped, doubled, unpolished] Third person. I been living in the third person. He gets up, he gets dressed, he gets through it — and I watch him do it. Mm-hmm — I been out here in orbit. Mm-hmm — Somebody bring the body back. [Verse 2 - back to loop and bass, guitars out, delay returns] Everybody's asking me to be present. Present tense. I would love to. I have tried. I have paid a man for it. I got a room inside my head with a window and no door and I go there when the talking gets too loud, and I don't come back for hours. Ain't nobody scared of me. They scared of what I'm not. And the worst part of the whole arrangement, the part I never say — I'm the one who isn't there, and I'm the one who has to watch. [Pre-Chorus - drums drop out, bass and voice] They say "hey — where'd you go?" I say "I never left." Which is a lie, and it's also the whole truth. [Chorus - full kit and riff, half-yelped, doubled, unpolished] Third person. I been living in the third person. He gets up, he gets dressed, he gets through it — and I watch him do it. Mm-hmm — I been out here in orbit. Mm-hmm — Somebody bring the body back. [Bridge - everything out. Hum, melodica, one clean note.] Mm-hmm... I was a ghost before the ghost. I was a ghost before the ghost. Ask anybody who slept next to me — I was already gone. [Final Chorus - full kit and riff, delay lengthening, toy keyboard drifting out of tune] Third person. I been living in the third person. He gets up, he gets dressed, he gets through it — and I watch him do it. Mm-hmm — I been out here in orbit. Mm-hmm — Somebody bring the body back. Somebody bring the body back. Somebody bring the — [Outro - melodica hum alone over the smeared loop, then a hard cut] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm... Mm-hmm, mm-hmm...
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