Something's Missing

So

So

So you'll call?

As soon as I get back

And then she 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

At the end of the day, after 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 stacked 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 AM, 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 other 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, were 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 by Thursday

And it's empty

Silent

It's just, a different place

And I stop what few passenger 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

Something's gone

Something's over

At the office

In an airport

In my house

On an island

Something's changed

In a classroom

At the station

In my car

And wherever you are

Something's gone

You are here