Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall
Leave the death ledger under city hall
Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today


Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet

Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain

Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel

Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today


Just leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain


Everything it must belong somewhere
A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs

Everything it must belong somewhere
I know that now, that is why I'm staying here


Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
Leave the widower in his private hell
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today


Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage

Let the traveling band on the interstate remain

Everything it must belong somewhere

Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square
Everything it must belong somewhere
I know that now that is why I'm staying here

Yeah, I know that now, that is why I'm staying here

Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed

Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today


Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain


Everything it must belong somewhere
Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair

Everything it must belong somewhere
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here


In truth the forest hears each sound
Each blade of grass as it lies down

The world requires no audience
No witnesses, no witnesses


Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool
Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today


Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube

Let the true genius in the padded room remain

Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow

Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today


Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls
Leave the hawks of war in their capitol
Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain


Everything it must belong somewhere
They locked the Devil in the ba!@&(t, threw God up into the air

Everything it must belong somewhere
And you know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
You know it's true, why don't you leave me here?