[Verse 1]

Take from my heart a splinter

Carrying wood for the coming winter

Spat out in the bag

There all the words

Leave me begat

Part of me

Absentee

[Verse 2]

Take from the people their dead river

Take from the body its shiver

I have something for you

I'll give you a clue

It's shaped like a shoe

Part of me

Absentee

[Bridge]

As before I knew

As before you want to

Ain't it true?

[Verse 3]

Walking on a country road late last night

I passed a stranger in the moonlight

I turned around to see where he did flee

But there was just me, returned a deep

Absentee

Part of me

Absentee

Part of me

Absentee