C  Dm  C  Dm  G
C F Am C

[Verse]
C                  Dm
Got that catatonic feeling
C                       Dm
And I'm drooling on the TV
                     G
Every now and then I think
                       C
How long have you been gone
    F             Am
And where's those groceries?

[Interlude]
C  F  C

[Verse]
C                     Dm
I'll be discovered by explorers
C                     Dm
My body fossilized in torpor
            G
And all the while

My thoughts repeat like
C            Am
Chinese water torture

[Interlude]
C  Em  F

[Chorus]
C                           Dm            Am   Em   F
When you are gone I tend to ramble on for days
C                        Dm                  Am   Em   F
It doesn't mean, it just helps me to keep my place

[Interlude]
C   Dm   C   Dm

[Verse]
C              Dm
Time itself is flattened
C                      Dm
You come back it never happened
            G
Except that now
                      C
Old man replaced your lover
    F               Am
All featureless and fattened

[Interlude]
C   F

[Verse]
C                    Dm
In disbelief at your misfortune you say
         C                Dm
Hell, I was only gone the weekend
                    G
And then I burst to flames
                          C
You see I've lived entire lives
     F        Am   Em  F
In a single a moment

[Chorus]
         C                               Dm             Am   Em  F
You see, when you are gone the lights go off and on all night
C                                Dm
The neighbors talk while I stand listless in my socks
        Am        Em   F
Until I disappear from sight

[Interlude]
C   Dm   F   Am   Em  F  C

[Outro]
C                    Dm
Got that cataclysmic feeling
C                      Dm
Babies crawling on the ceiling
          G
And now I think
                        C    F    C
Maybe we should start a family