1. It's gotta be somewhere --
Behind the curtains
The cushions, the apricots --
In the box of letters
You left here. The letters
Wouldn’t fit through the slots.
(And so they're sitting there unopened…)

If I can only find my pen again
(Begin again),
I’d write a fulsome history:
We started out in a garden
Of surpassing mystery...
Now I’m wide awake at first light,
But, Nik, you didn’t come home again last night.
No, you didn’t come home again last night.
You didn't come home again,
Home again last night.

I had it in my pocket.
In my dream I always held it close to me.
I was the Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow,
And you were always Dorothy.
(And now I can’t get back to Manassas…

The battles there,
The battles there still rattle there
The chandeliers.)
And you're sitting there
In your mohair and
Your diamond necklace from De Beers,
With Judy Garland’s appetite.
But, Nik, you didn’t come home again last night.
No, you didn’t come home again last night.
You didn't come home again,
Home again last night.

It was a picture
From back when we were
The picture-perfect family.
If you squint, already
You can see the wrecking ball
There, behind the tree.
(But no photograph of the wrecking…)

I'm just a child again,
So I don't see the strain
You hold inside your smile.
I'm an infant now, even younger,
And spilling out onto the tile,
While you push with all your might.
But, Nik, you didn’t come home again last night.
No, you didn’t come home again last night.
You didn't come home again,
Home again last night.

2. You know, I get deja Vu
Every time that I think of you
Every time I call out into the blue
It's such a strange feeling too
Oo-woo-oo

I got a wife now, you know
You remember Sally Jo
And two boys constantly in tow
They would surely wreck you
Oo-woo-oo

Time will tell, time will heal
Give it enough time and time will steal
Time's up now, timeout now
Time to go now
Time after time anew
Oo-woo-oo

You were robbed, you were ripped off
You were dealt a hand and you were pissed off
And if I'm being honest I admit
That I also drew from that same loaded shoe
Oo-woo-oo

But you always carried such a terrible load
As if you deciphered some terrible code
As if you knew the very moment
That it all would explode

I can see the future...