You Are the Lack

I'm sorry if I caught you at a bad time
I'm not up to much just waiting to die and sitting around
Out and down and I was thinking 'bout the night we moved to town
Seems like 20 years ago
We said this is where we were meant to go
It was hard to know

I'll wait another year
I will wait here in this town
I would wait forever for you my dear
And if I ever said I would wait here in this town
You know that I only said it out of fear
Of growing old alone

I'm sorry if the rain never stops
I miss you more than Jesus Christ misses his last weeks of life
I held you close at Church and Market as the cars searched for parking
Seems like 20 years ago
We said cold fronts can't destroy a bond this strong
Turns out we were wrong

I'll wait another year
I will wait here in this town
I would wait forever for you my dear
And if I ever said I would wait here in this town
You know that I only said it out of fear
Of growing old alone

Your ghost is counterfeit
You are the most of it
That steered us off the coast a bit
You are the locusts that bred the wheat that fed the fire that burned the gates of the empire
You are the sacrament and choir
You are a liar
You are the tears on the guardrail, carnations in December
You are the train that keeps me up when I live three miles from the track
You are the lack
We're in the pink, we're in the black, we're in the clear

I'll wait another year
I will wait here in this town
I would wait forever for you my dear
And if I ever said I would wait here in this town
You know that I only said it out of fear
Of growing old alone