Tim Minchin - The Absence Of You lyrics

I take a walk on the Seine
Cross Pont Neuf on my way to St germain
Love hearts on padlocks on wire in the mist
Where young lovers kiss and swear to be true
Echoes of ten thousand sighs of love
And yet I feel only the absence of you

Out of a window on the thirtieth floor
Central Park shines with the coming of dawn
Through eyes rendered weary by
Jetlag and wine i turn round to find
There’s a girl in my room
For a moment we kiss

But her vodka-soaked lips
Taste only of the absence of you
I don’t know what all of this means
If you are not here with me and I am lost
When we are apart there’s a hole in my heart
That light passes through
And the pattern it creates is the shape of
The absence of you

Spring has been found hanging
Round Soho Square
So I take my coffee and newspaper there
To bask in the not-warm-enough April sun
With the workers who come
To eat Pret with no shoes
But the grass to the side
Of the patch where I’m lying
Is flat with the absence of you

I don’t know what all this is for
If you are not near to me and I can’t sleep
Sleep is no fun when the unruly sun
Will reveal the truth
A space in my bed as cold as the dead
Exactly the size and the shape of
The absence of you and all of this beauty
Runs over and through me
And pools round my shoes
And the puddle it forms
Conforms to the shape of the absence of you