You peeled an orange that wasn't there Ate it slow, like you didn't care If I believed you or not at all "Forget it isn't there," you said "that's all" I watched your hands move through the air Watched you swallow somethin' made of nothin' I laughed, but my chest went quiet Like I'd just watched you disappear a little It's a pantomime you made me believe In somethin' that was never there Empty hands, and I still feel it everywhere It's a pantomime, and I'm lost in the air And maybe that's all I am to you Somethin' you imagine into bein' Somethin' you can make disappear As easy as you made it appear Now every room I walk into I check if somebody's holdin' fruit You said just forget it exists And I forgot, I forgot, I forgot It's a pantomime you made me believe In somethin' that was never there Empty hands, and I still feel it everywhere It's a pantomime, and I'm lost in the ai...
You said you burn 'em sometimes Said it calm, like it's nothin' at all I laughed it off, but it stuck Stuck like smoke on a wall Been countin' every greenhouse Every plastic roof in town Drivin' slow past each one Waitin' for somethin' to burn down There's a greenhouse, there's a greenhouse Somewhere out there, waitin' on the fire There's a greenhouse, there's a greenhouse Nobody's lookin', nobody's askin' why None of 'em ever catch None of 'em ever go Two months of early mornin' drives Every roof still standin' in a row You said you'd find the one nobody needs Nobody'd miss it, nobody'd care Was that you talkin' about her, or me I still don't know. I still drive out there. There's a greenhouse, there's a greenhouse Somewhere out there, waitin' on the fire There's a greenhouse, there's a greenhouse Nobody's lookin', nobody's askin' why Maybe ther...