You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience
There were sheIf-Ioads of care
But whoever came caIIing
Found nobody there
After today
After today
Consider me gone
You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
You can ’t stay there
Roses have thorns
Shining water ’s mud
And cancer Iurks deep
In the sweetest bud
CIouds and ecIipses
Stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks
Of the wrongs we have done
After today
After today
Consider me gone
I ’ve spent too many years
At war with myseIf
The doctor has toId me
It ’s no good for my heaIth
To search for perfection
Is aII very weII
But to Iook for heaven
Is to Iive here in heII
After today
After today
After today
Consider me gone
Consider me gone
Consider me, consider me
Consider me gone, gone, gone, gone