[Intro]
[Slow, acoustic guitar picking]
[Breathy]

[Verse 1]
The list grows long... friends are carking it
Left, right, and centre
Leaving us all behind, just ghosts in the hallway
It brings me down, it really pulls me under
But then I see your face

[Chorus]
Eyes wet, laughing—you were all such funny souls
Like a box set, I can open when I need a little lift
It's as though you're still in the here and now
And you never went away

[Verse 2]
[Building intensity]
You are still here, in memory
Still alive in memory... still alive
Laughing at a TV show, or an absurd situation
The kind that only we could understand
[Harmonies: (Oh, only we could know)]

[Bridge]
[Soft, delicate piano]
Sometimes the laughing is all you can do
When the silence gets too loud
When the emptiness gets too heavy
[Whisper: I hear you]

[Chorus]
Eyes wet, laughing, you were all such funny souls
Like a box set, I can open when I need a little lift
It's as though you're still in the here and now
And you never went away

[Outro]
[Slow, fading]
Meanwhile, I'm just laughing
Yeah, I'm just laughing
Laughing with the dead...
[Silence]
[Softly: You're still here]