Title: The Shadow on the Stair [Intro] [Instrumental: droning 12-string guitar jangle, heavy slow bass, dragging drums, 8 bars] [Verse 1] I am the dark you left below (left below...) On the seventeenth stair where the candles won't go I am the shape that you shrugged from your back (shrugged from your back...) I am the grey that you never come back [Verse 2] I kept your step and I kept your name (kept your name...) I kept the rain and I kept the blame I am the cold on the back of your hand (back of your hand...) And you spent me for colour you'll never understand [Chorus] Who's on the stair? (who's on the stair...) Only the shadow you sold for a song Who's on the stair? Only the dark that you're missing when the colour is gone Come back down — come back down — To the shadow on the stair [Instrumental: 12-string riff circles, 4 bars] [Verse 3] I hear you laughing a world away (world away...) Painting your nights till they blur into day But a man is a candle that throws no shade (throws no shade...) Is a man half-spent, is a debt half-paid [Chorus] Who's on the stair? (who's on the stair...) Only the shadow you sold for a song (sold for a song...) Who's on the stair? Only the dark that you're missing when the colour is gone (when it's gone...) Come back down — come back down — To the shadow on the stair [Bridge] [Instrumental: bass climbs, guitar grows menacing] I will wait (I will wait...) On the seventeenth stair I will wait (I will wait...) In the colourless air Till the colour runs dry And you climb — and I'm there — (I'm there... I'm there...) [Chorus: heavier, doubled] Who's on the stair? (who's on the stair...) Only the shadow you sold for a song (sold for a song...) Who's on the stair? Only the dark that you're missing when the colour is gone (when it's gone...) Come back down — come back down — To the shadow on the stair (on the stair...) [Outro] [Instrumental: 12-string drone, bass descending, drums fade to a slow pulse] I am the dark you left below... (on the stair... on the stair...) I will wait... [Guitar rings, unresolved, and fades]
