Verse 1
There's a doorway painted blue,
Rain collecting in my shoes.
Someone laughing down the hall,
Then a blank where it all falls.
There's a hand against my sleeve,
Someone asking me to leave.
Every time I turn around,
I wake before I hear the sound.
Pre-Chorus
Why does something I can't name
Leave me shaking all the same?
Why do I feel so far from home
In a place I've never known?
Chorus
Give me back the missing pieces,
Let me see what happened there.
There's a life inside a second,
There's a face beneath the glare.
I can feel the shape of something
That I lost along the way.
If it meant so much to me,
Why can't I make it stay?
Verse 2
Found a photograph last spring,
Didn't recognize a thing.
Still I sat there on the floor
Like I'd seen that room before.
I've been taking different roads,
Past the houses no one knows.
Waiting for a crooked gate
To explain why I'm awake.
Pre-Chorus
Was it something that you said?
Was it something that I did?
I've been trying every key
For a door inside of me.
Chorus
Give me back the missing pieces,
Let me see what happened there.
There's a life inside a second,
There's a face beneath the glare.
I can feel the shape of something
That I lost along the way.
If it meant so much to me,
Why can't I make it stay?
Bridge
Maybe I've been filling spaces
With the things I want to find.
Putting words in someone's mouth,
Making pictures fit the light.
I don't want a better story.
I don't need a softer end.
I just want to know whose hand
I've been reaching for again.
Extended Guitar Solo
Quiet Breakdown
Blue paint underneath my nails.
Wet coat hanging on the rail.
And a voice so close and clear—
Then the room...
And I'm not here.
Final Chorus
Give me back the missing pieces,
Let me see what happened there.
There's a life inside a second,
There's a face beneath the glare.
I can feel the shape of something
Getting closer every day.
If I find my way back in,
Will you still look at me the same?
Outro
There's a doorway painted blue.
I think I went there once with you.
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