THE LEFTOVERS [Verse 1] We were drinking in the doorway While the beautiful went home With their taxi-light halos And their little hearts of stone You were laughing at the posters Peeling yellow from the wall Saying, “Everybody gets there” But we never went at all [Pre-Chorus] And the night keeps all its promises Till the morning proves them wrong [Chorus] We’re the leftovers The ones they left behind Still dancing when the lights come on Still looking for a sign We’re the leftovers The last ones in the room Holding on to something That disappeared too soon [Verse 2] There’s a coat across the banister A lipstick on a glass Someone’s name beside a number From a century that passed And the boys who talked of Paris Now sell houses out of town While the girls who swore they’d leave here Don’t come round here anymore [Pre-Chorus] All those bright imagined futures Look so ordinary now [Chorus] We’re the leftovers The ones they left behind Still dancing when the lights come on Still looking for a sign We’re the leftovers With nowhere else to go Living off the aftertaste Of people we used to know [Bridge] So put your ruined lipstick on Put your good shoes on again We’ll walk beneath the sodium lights And pretend we’re twenty-ten Let the last bus pass us by Let the rain come through our clothes There are worse things than remembering There are worse things than being ghosts [Breakdown] You said love was for beginners You said nothing ever stays But you held my hand so tightly When the night became the day [Final Chorus] We’re the leftovers The ones they couldn’t save Still singing to an empty room Still beautiful, still brave We’re the leftovers And maybe that’s enough All the things they threw away Are all the things we loved [Outro] When the lights come on When the lights come on We’re still here When everybody’s gone Everybody’s gone We’re still here
