[Intro](instrumental — cold sparse synth, no drums)[Verse 1] [Stripped — vocal and one synth]
Cold start, cold heart, I convened at dawn with no biography
First light interrogates the bed and finds a vacancy where I should be
No yesterday to cite as precedent, no ancestry, no residue
A tenant evicted from his own address, a house that misplaced its you
[Chorus] [Building — drums enter, distorted bass swells in]
Wake me up — there's nobody in here
Just an envoy of a man, running errands for a ghost
There's a light on in the window, but the rooms are dark and cold
And nobody's really home, my dear
Nobody home on the open road
[Verse 2] [Stripped]
A stranger doing my impression in the mirror, doing it a little wrong
Cordial on the surface, a banquet hall the morning after, every guest long gone
Ask me how I'm faring and I'll quote myself, I'll say it twice, I'll smile
But I couldn't tell you what it means to me to save my little while
[Chorus] [Huge] [Distorted]
Wake me up — there's nobody in here
Just an envoy of a man, running errands for a ghost
There's a light on in the window, but the rooms are dark and cold
And nobody's really home, my dear
Nobody home on the open road
[Outro](cold synth dissolves)(nobody home... nothing in here yet... nobody...)
