Next to the Trash - Punch Brothers

She puts my body away

Next to the trash

Under the sink

Along with all the cleaning supplies and the things that we buy and decide we

don’t need

Well it’s damp and it’s dark and it’s lonely in here

Next to the trash

Under the sink

But everyone needs some time off now and then

'Cause I’m happy my friends

Don’t feel sorry for me

She says if you’re playin' the game

I hope you know you won’t win it

And if you tell me you’re next to the trash

Well I’ll tell you I’m in it

Why would you want me to touch you if you know I don’t mean it?

She’s right I’m mean when I’m bored

So I dig through the trash looking for her

She can wash herself off

In the mist from the pipes

We could use more of that around here that’s for sure

But it seems that whoever has thrown her away

Has forgotten the trash under the sink

Or was it a joke meant to buy her some time

All the citrus and pine make it harder to think

So I say if you’re playing the game

I hope you know you won’t win it

And I’ll be sorry if they threw you away

It’s just that they didn’t

She says «Boy, you’d better take it back right now and I mean it»

She puts my body away

Then chases my mind up to the roof

It jumps in the gutter

But she pulls it out

And it’s all part of having a man in the house

It jumps in the gutter she pulls it out

And it’s all part of having a man in the house