Something's Missing

So

So

So you'll call?

As soon as I get back

And then he left
And then I was alone

Back to the way that things were

Back to the simple and plain

For five days the weather had been so nice

But as they boarded, it started to rain
Beulah]
At the end of the day
Everyone left

We all tried to go back to normal, except

The town was more quiet and
Somehow far emptier

We all looked the same
But we're different than we were

The gym was a sight
As I staked the last cot

Thank-you's written everywhere
And things they forgot

The board of health says
Clean it up - every part
So we start

7: 42 a.m

Sunday

September 16th
After five days, they just ran
the zamboni over the ice
And played hockey
With the Plane People gone
Gander Town Council declares the
state of emergency over and I head home
We were all exhausted - just spent
Most of us had been up for
five days straight working
But somehow I can't sleep
so I sit down and turn on the television
And I just start crying
I hadn't let myself cry the whole time

Something's gone

Out the airplane window, I can see Manhattan
And there's still smoke
And suddenly I'm afraid all over again
And there are others afraid too

Something's over

I know Newark airport
You could pull a truck over on the side
of the turnpike
And shoot a grenade launcher
at a plane coming in

Something's done

But nothing happens

I drive Kevin back to his place
We don't say much

Something's missing

I go straight to his firehouse
Part of me wondered if they
just weren't telling me
But... they still don't know

Something's changed

My flat is the same as I left it
But emptier
Quieter
I start to unpack
And I find the camera

Something's rearranged

On the way to my restaurant
I drop my daughter at school
But she won't go in
She says she's scared
What do I tell her?

Something's strained

Back at my dad's house
I look out the window
At this view I've looked at my whole life
And now a part of it
Something's missing

Something's missing

Kevin breaks up with me
And then he quits and moves back home to New York
And I miss him
I miss his jokes

Something's lost

Nick and I call each other when we can
But... it's awful
The only reason we met was because
this terrible thing happened

Something's cost

I go down to Ground Zero
Which is like the end of the world
It's literally still burning

Something's not

My dad asks
"Were you okay where you were stranded?"
How do I tell him that I wasn't just okay
I was so much better

Something's missing

I phone American and say
"I'm ready to go wherever you want to send me."
But they say take a few days off
I phone every day and I am back at the airport on Thursday
And it's empty. Silent
It's just - a different place
And I stop what few passengers there are and I say
"Thank you for still flying."

Hello
You've reached Gander Academy
This is Beulah Davis
How can I help you?

...He's gone
It's over

...Oh, no. I'm so sorry, Hannah
I'm so sorry

You are here
At the end of a moment
At the end of the world
You are here
On the edge of the ocean
Where the story ends

Where the river meets the sea

Here
Something's gone
Something's over

Across the Atlantic

At the office

In an airport

In my house

On an island
Something's rearranged

In a classroom

At the station

In my car

And wherever you are
(Something's gone)
You are here