After The Fact Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

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