Got a brand new roof above my head

All the empty boxes thrown away

I rearranged the place

A hundred times today

But the ordering of objects

Couldn't hide what's missing



All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be home again

All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be alone again



Got myself a bottle of red wine

Got a night of nothing else to do

I think I might know

What I really want

But is a brighter discontent

The best that I could hope to find?



Got a big black television set

Now I can watch just what I want

But I'm here staring up

At pictures on the wall

And where are you,

You're still stuck inside them all



All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be home again

All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be alone again



But love is not these belongings

That surround me

Though there's meaning

In the memories they hold

A breaking heart in an empty apartment

Was the loudest sound I never heard



Got a desk I'll write myself a note

Pretending that it came from you

On hotel stationary

From the time we first met

Whatever I can do cause

I won't throw my hands up yet



All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be home again

All these things should make me happy

Make me happy to be alone again



But love is not these belongings

That surround you

Though there's meaning

In the memories they hold

A breaking heart in an empty apartment

Was the loudest sound I never heard



Well I'll be find if

I dont look around me now

Too much for what's gone

If only I can wait here just a little while

And let time pass in my room