Accomplice

Verse 1

You stretched the way a wire does

Before it gives out on the hook

I keep your jacket in the hallway

Where you left it when you shook

Thirty-one short years of laughing

Now I'm counting every one

The shelf still holds the plastic cowboy

And the dog that always runs

Pre-Chorus

And I don't know where you went

Only that you went too soon

I talk to your old number

Just to hear it ring the room

Chorus

Slinky you were right beside me

Every single scheme we drew

Slinky now the space is wider

Than the hallway we ran through

I would stretch across forever

Just to pull you back again

Slinky you were my accomplice

And I'm standing here my friend

Verse 2

We planned a trip we never took

Two tickets in a drawer

I still trace the faded ink lines

Like they're walking through the door

I keep your laugh inside my chest

It rattles when I breathe

Every joke we never finished

Is a song I'll never leave

Pre-Chorus

And I don't know where you went

Only that it's far too far

I wear your favorite sweater

Like a compass and a scar

Chorus

Slinky you were right beside me

Every single scheme we drew

Slinky now the space is wider

Than the hallway we ran through

I would stretch across forever

Just to pull you back again

Slinky you were my accomplice

And I'm standing here my friend

Bridge

You were brave when I was shaking

You were quiet when I screamed

Now the room is full of nothing

And the nothing's what I dream

I keep waiting for the doorway

I keep waiting for your step

Thirty-one is not a number

It's the promise that you kept

Chorus

Slinky you were right beside me

Every single scheme we drew

Slinky now the space is wider

Than the hallway we ran through

I would stretch across forever

Just to pull you back again

Slinky you were my accomplice

And I'm standing here my friend

Outro

(Mm)

(Oh-oh)

I'll be your accomplice

Till the very end

(Mm-hmm)