Del Amitri

Evidence

Del Amitri


Saturday night, the lights are all lit up 
There's a bottle of wine beside an overfilled paper cup 
And the cigarette she left lit is all burned up 
But the heat from where she lay is not 

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind 
Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime 
And between these sheets her perfume lingers on 
And in a couple of weeks all the evidence will be gone 

Like a dust free patch where a magazine lay 
A girl leaves a gap when she goes, but someone else fills it up someday 

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind 
Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime 

She took away the daydream leaving nothing but daily life 
She took away almost everything but if you look you'll find 
Evidence she left behind: 

A blue bar of soap left on the sink 
And lipstick 'round the last glass she used to drink 
And those burnt-up books of matches that she kept 
And heat from the mattress where she slept 

Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind 
Like wound down batteries, hearts stop sometime