[Intro: six-second musique-concrete tape collage; cash-register bell, keys rattling in a tin, reversed guitar swell; tape catches, half-beat silence, jump-cut into verse] [Verse 1] The shop beside the station Had its windows painted blue A sign said everything must go But nothing ever moved You bought a broken radio I bought a yellow chair The woman wrapped the silence up And charged us for the air [Chorus] Keep the change Leave the light on Someone's coming back For something they forgot Keep the change Let the rain come We can take the long receipt For everything we're not [Verse 2] We carried home the yellow chair With one leg in your coat You read the faded guarantee Like something that I wrote The radio said nothing Till we turned it upside down Then a woman read the weather For a long-abandoned town [Chorus] Keep the change Leave the light on Someone's coming back For something they forgot Keep the change Let the rain come We can take the long receipt For everything we're not [Bridge: thin radio-filtered band, lead stays intimate] You asked me where to put it I said anywhere will do You said that was the trouble With the way I spoke to you We moved it to the window Where the afternoon came through For once I didn't say a thing You sat and took off both your shoes [Final Chorus] Keep the change Leave the light on We don't have to mend Every little thing we've got Keep the change Let the rain come There's a chair beside the window And a place for what we're not [Outro: brief return of the opening bell, natural band stop] The radio was warming up You turned it down a touch Outside the shop was closing We hadn't missed so much
