Consider Me Gone

You can't stay there
You can't stay thereㅤ
You can't stay there
You can't stay there

There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there

There were cupboards of patience
There were shelf-loads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there

After today
After today
Consider me gone

You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there

Roses have thorns
In shining water's mud
Cancer lurks deep
In the sweetest bud

Clouds and eclipses
Stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks
Of the wrongs we have done

After today
After today
Consider me gone

I've spent too many years
At war with myself
The doctor has told me
It's no good for my health

To search for perfection
Is all very well
But to look for Heaven
Is to live here in Hell

After today
After today
After today
Consider me gone

Consider me gone
Consider me, consider me
Consider me gone, gone, gone, gone