[Verse 1] (tezeta horn line, vibraphone, brushed drums) Ask her what she's afraid of and she'll give you the good three The dark, the dentist, heights, she says, and laughs agreeably But there's a fourth she doesn't mention, doesn't dress and bring to light The one that's actually driving every quiet careful night [Chorus] (band lifts, muted trumpet, hushed vocal) There's a fourth thing, and it never makes the list The three are just the cover for the one you can't admit You'll say the easy sorrows, you'll perform the lighter fear And the fourth thing runs the whole show from a room that's never here [Verse 2] (rhodes dark voicing, upright bass) A man can name three reasons that he left the town behind The weather and the money and a job he hoped to find The fourth one has no language, has no shape that he can lend It only shows in how he won't drive past a certain bend [Chorus] (fuller, baritone sax low) There's a fourth thing, and it never makes the list The three are just the cover for the one you can't admit You'll say the easy sorrows, you'll perform the lighter fear And the fourth thing runs the whole show from a room that's never here [Bridge] (drums drop, vibraphone and organ only) It isn't that you're lying when you offer up the three They're true enough, they're honest, they're as far as you can see But the fourth thing holds the building, it's the beam behind the wall And to say it is to move it, and to move it is to fall [Sax Solo] (baritone sax over tezeta changes) [Chorus] (final, stacked harmonies) There's a fourth thing, and you'll carry it unsaid You'll list the three forever while it sleeps inside your head We meet across our cover stories, three by easy three And the fourth things pass in silence, and they never get to speak [Outro] (muted trumpet trailing) She gives the three and smiles at you, the fourth stays in the dark (never said, never said) The one that left the deepest mark
