Absentee

Absentee
Take from my heart a splinter
Carrying wood for the coming winter
Spat out in the bag
There all the words
Leave me begat
Part of me
Absentee
Take from the people their dead river
Take from the body its shiver
I have something for you
I'll give you a clue
It's shaped like a shoe
Part of me
Absentee

As before I knew
As before you want to
Ain't it true?
Walking on a country road late last night
I passed a stranger in the moonlight
I turned around to see where he did flee
But there was just me, returned a deep
Absentee
Part of me
Absentee
Part of me
Absentee