nothing to do, turn on tube with a tv guide right by your side you turn to the news, nothing is new but you're not really listening anyway
you got a note in the mail, says that you failed to meet the requirements for a welfare check but it would mean so much less, if someone would just take the time to come and check
inside every lonely life theres a question burning holes inside
if im missing would you miss me? if im gone would you move on? would you post up signs on street poles? would you search straight through 'til dawn? and if the sun rose up would you search all through the day? and would you not give up, and not lay down, until im found?
you lay down on the bed, the sheets colored red you never really liked that colour much if tonight when you closed, your eyes you died would anybody notice?
and inside every lonely life theres a question burning holes inside
if im missing would you miss me? if im gone would you move on? would you post up signs on street poles? would you search straight through till dawn? and if the sun rose up would you search all through the day? and would you not give up, and not lay down?
every single second of our lives is a second that we cant just let slip by cause for everyone whos got someone theres a pair of lonely eyes and if wed just look up to meet the tears they cry
if im missing would you miss me? if im gone would you move on? would you post up signs on street poles? would you search straight through till dawn? and if the sun rose up would you search all through the day? and would you not give up, and not lay down, until im found?
you walk in the door, shoes on the floor a pack of cigarettes lays on the stand the answering machine, is perfectly clean no one ever called
says constable leer "its been seven years, how could anyone be so alone?" hes been dead in his bed, the sheets colored red and no one ever noticed