SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO

[Instrumental Intro] Verse 1 There’s a crack running down my bathroom mirror I keep saying I’ll replace it next week I’ve been staring at the man who’s getting older Wondering how much of him I get to keep And I’ve read about the things they’re building How they might learn to leave the flesh behind I used to laugh at people talking like that Now it’s all I ever think about at night Pre-Chorus I don’t believe in heaven I don’t believe we’re saved But somewhere in a building They’re teaching things to stay Chorus So find me somewhere else to go Somewhere the years can’t follow Take everything I am today And promise it won’t fade tomorrow I don’t want a second life I just want to finish mine Without a body keeping score Of everything it can’t survive Is that too much to ask for? Verse 2 I’ve got photographs of people I don’t speak to And a hard drive full of songs I’ll never play There’s a message from my father on my old phone I keep it just to hear the way he’d say my name Funny how we spend our lives collecting Little pieces of ourselves against the end Then we put them in a box beneath the staircase And hope somebody opens it again Pre-Chorus And everybody tells me That dying makes us real But I’ve never understood why That should change the way I feel Chorus So find me somewhere else to go Somewhere the years can’t follow Take everything I am today And promise it won’t fade tomorrow I don’t need eternity Just a little more of me Than what this body can afford Before it starts forgetting things Is that too much to ask for? Bridge What if it works? What if I wake up? What if there’s nothing different Except the absence of my blood? Will I still hate the mornings? Will I still miss the rain? Will I remember being twenty And wishing I could start again? And if they switch the power off Does anybody hear me? If the company goes under Does that mean I disappear? God, I’ve got a thousand questions For a future I might never see But I’d rather be afraid of that Than what they’re going to do with me Final Chorus Find me somewhere else to go Somewhere the years can’t follow Keep the things I couldn’t say And all the people I still love tomorrow I don’t want to rule the stars I don’t want to play at God I only want to see how far This strange and stupid life could go If somebody would let me Outro And if I make it through If there’s a place beyond all this Leave a light on in the hallway So I’ll know where the living is And if I wake up different If there’s something I don’t know Ask me what my mother’s name is Ask me where I used to go Ask me something only I would know Before you tell me I’m home.