Carry the one

Intro

La, la, la, la...

Carry the one.

La, la, la, la...

One. Two. Three.

Chorus

One for the eyes, one for the ears,

one for the mouth, and you carry the one.

Nobody did it, nobody was there,

add them all up and see what you've done.

La, la, la, la...

Verse

Window open, curtain thin, I saw it, didn't say a thing.

Counting on my fingers while the counting kept on counting in.

Heard it on the staircase, heard it climbing, heard it clear.

Kept the word inside my pocket, kept it folded for a year.

Small. Small. Everybody keeps it small.

Small enough that nobody ever has to say it all.

Pre-Chorus

Cover the eyes, cover the ears,

cover the mouth and count.

One, two, three, and here it comes,

here it comes, here it comes...

Chorus

One for the eyes, one for the ears,

one for the mouth, and you carry the one.

Nobody did it, nobody was there,

add them all up and see what you've done.

La, la, la, la...

Verse

Same street, same stair, same hour, same hush.

Now it's we, now it's us, and I don't know when it switched.

Nobody voted, nobody joined, nobody signed a single line.

Everybody's alibi is standing right beside mine.

Us. Us. Everybody's in the crowd.

Crowd don't have a face, so the crowd don't say it loud.

Pre-Chorus

Cover the eyes, cover the ears,

cover the mouth and count.

One, two, three, and here it comes,

here it comes, here it comes...

Chorus

One for the eyes, one for the ears,

one for the mouth, and you carry the one.

Nobody did it, nobody was there,

add them all up and see what you've done.

La, la, la, la...

Bridge

Zero, plus zero, plus zero...

La, la, la, la...

Zero, plus zero, plus zero...

And the zero did the thing.

Nobody threw it, nobody caught it,

nobody carried it home.

So it stayed. So it stayed.

Oh...

Instrumental

La, la, la, la...

Verse

Ask me who was standing there, I tell them I forget.

Ask me for the number and I say I'm not done yet.

Blackboard full of nothing and the nothing won't divide.

Everybody got it right, and it happened anyway.

Hands. Hands. I'm running out of hands.

Everybody's out of hands, so nobody understands.

Breakdown

One, two, three...

Add up all the ones who looked away,

that's the one, that's the one.

Add up all the ones who looked away,

that's the one who did it.

That's the one who did it.

La, la, la, la...

Chorus

One for the eyes, one for the ears,

one for the mouth, and you carry the one.

Nobody did it, nobody was there,

add them all up and see what you've done.

La, la, la, la...

Chorus

One for the eyes, one for the ears,

one for the mouth, and you carry the one.

Nobody did it, nobody was there,

add them all up and see what you've done.

La, la, la, la...

Outro

Eyes. Ears. Mouth.

Carry the one.

Eyes. Ears. Mouth.

Carry the one.

One, two, three...

And you? and me?

La, la, la, la...

La, la, la, la...

Eyes. Ears. Mouth.

And you? and me?