John Wesley Harding - After the Fact lyrics

There is a room that you just now walked out of It has everything in it but you There's a mirror that knew what you looked like And a door that has ruined the view There's a carpet depressed by your footsteps A hallway which echoes their sound There's an arrow that points to the exit And a lift that goes no further down, no further down There's a stage play that shows every evening With no prompter, no plot and no lines The actors don't know what they're doing They improvise all of their lives And the action's all happening offstage Where the props meet the actual things Someone saw you with a gun in your hand I heard the report from the wings You say you're leaving When I know that you're gone After the fact, you'll be back But long after the song If ever I try to run after The ceiling reveals the sky The carpet is pulled out from under The walls disappear in the flies Behind them, the lenses of cameras They all want a piece of us now The story behind the unmaking The what and the why and the how Excuse if I choose not to bow You say you're leaving When I know that you're gone After the fact, you'll be back But long after the song is gone After the fact, you'll be gone But long after the song