Something's Missing Lyrics by Come From Away Cast

[spoken]
So

So

So you'll call?

As soon as I get back.

And then he left.

And then I was alone.


[sung]
Back to the way that things were

Back to the simple and plain

For five days the weather had been so nice

But as they boarded it started to rain

At the end of the day, after everyone left

We all tried to go back to normal, except

The town was more quiet, and somehow far emptier

We all looked the same, but we're different than we were

The gym was a sight, as I stacked the last cot

Thank yous written everywhere, and things they forgot

The board of health says, clean it up every part

So we start

[spoken]
7:42 A.M.

Sunday

September 16

After five days, they just ran the Zamboni over the ice and played hockey

With the plane people gone, Gandertown council declares the state of emergency over and I head home.
We were all exhausted, just spent! Most of us had been up for five days straight working. But somehow, I can't sleep, so I sit down turn on the television, and I... just start crying. I hadn't let myself cry the whole time.

[sung]
Something's gone

Out the airplane window I can see Manhattan, and there's still smoke, and suddenly I'm afraid all over again, and the others, afraid too.

Something's over

I know Newark airport, you could pull a truck over on the side of he turnpike and shoot a grenade launcher, at a plane coming in.

Something's done

But nothing happens.

I drive Kevin back to his place... we don't say much.

Something's missing

I go straight to his firehouse... part of me wondered if they just weren't telling me, but they still don't know.

Something's changed

My flat is the same as I left it, but emptier, quieter. I start to unpack, and I find the camera.

Something's rearranged

On the way to my restaurant I drop my daughter at school, but she won't go in. She says she's scared. What do I tell her?

Something's strained

Back at my dad's house, I look out the window at this view I've looked at my whole life, and now a part of it, something's missing.

Something's missing

Kevin breaks up with me, and then he quits and moves back home to New York. And I miss him, I miss his jokes.

Something's lost

Nick and I call each other when we can, but it's awful. The only reason we met was because this terrible thing happened.

Something's cost

I go down to ground zero, which is like the end of the world. It's literally still burning.

Something's not

My dad asks, "Were you okay, huh, where you were stranded?" How do I tell him I wasn't just okay, I was so much better?
Something's missing

I phone American and say I'm ready to go, wherever you wanna send me, but they say take a few days off. I phone every day and I am back in the airport by Thursday, and it's empty. Silent. It's just...a different place. And I stop what few passengers there are, and say, thank you for still flying.

[spoken]
Hello, you've reached Gander academy, this is Beulah Davis, how can I help you?

He's gone. It's over.

Oh no. I'm so sorry Hannah, I'm so sorry.

[sung]
You are here, at the end of a moment, at the end of the world. You are here, on the edge of the ocean, where the story ends.

Where the river meets the sea.

Here (Something's gone)

At the office. (Something's over)

In an airport.

In my house.

On an island. (Something's rearranged)

In a classroom.

At the station.

In my car.

And wherever you are

Something's gone

You are here

[Thanks to lec92001 for adding these lyrics]