Evidence

Saturday night, the lights are all lit up

There’s a bottle of wine beside an overfilled paper cup

And the cigarette she left lit is all burned up

But the heat from where she lay is not

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind

Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime

And between these sheets her perfume lingers on

And in a couple of weeks all the evidence will be gone

Like a dust free patch where a magazine lay

A girl leaves a gap when she goes, but someone else fills it up someday

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind

Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime

She took away the daydream leaving nothing but daily life

She took away almost everything but if you look you’ll find

Evidence she left behind:

A blue bar of soap left on the sink

And lipstick ’round the last glass she used to drink

And those burnt-up books of matches that she kept

And heat from the mattress where she slept

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind

Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime