There

[WOMAN]
There
He was never there
Every time we talked
I'd look in his eyes
And his mind was where?

I don't mean to say
Life was doom and gloom
Things were always pleasant
If I needed help
He was in the room
He just wasn't present

He just wasn't there
Never really there
I felt so unhinged
I went out and binged
Had that dumb affair

Still, the fault's not mine
Quoting Gertrude Stein:
"There was just no there there."
There, there

Don't know why I care
'Cept that I am here
'Cause he wasn't

[MAN]
There

[WOMAN]
There

[MAN]
I was never

[WOMAN]
There

[MAN]
There
She was always

[WOMAN]
There

[MAN]
Saying "George, be"

[WOMAN]
There

[MAN]
And my mind said where?
Did I have a choice?
Love is worth the fight
Not a thing you squander

[WOMAN]
Yoo hoo, George!

[MAN]
Then I'd hear her voice

[WOMAN]
George?

[MAN]
Urgent and uptight

[WOMAN]
Hello?

[MAN]
And my mind would wander

[WOMAN]
Come in, George

[MAN]
So I wasn't there

[WOMAN]
Couldn't he be there?

[MAN]
Never really there

[WOMAN]
Once an evening there

[MAN]
And I felt maligned
That my vagrant mind
Meant I didn't care

[WOMAN]
It was clear that he didn't care

[MAN]
Then, to make things smooth
She would try soothe
Sticking in her "There, there"
There

[WOMAN]
There, there

[MAN]
Got out of her hair
'Cause she made it clear
That I wasn't there

[WOMAN]
I'm not a jerk
Though it's the way I seem

[MAN]
Wanted to be there

[WOMAN]
He had his work
I gave him time to dream

[MAN]
Knew I should be there

[WOMAN]
Lost my desire
Waiting till he awoke

[MAN]
Worked at being there

[WOMAN]
Longing for fire
Living with smoke
Isn't a joke

[MAN]
I tried to go her way
Wanting things improved
Tired of being not there

[WOMAN]
Is it so hard a task?

[MAN]
Think of my dismay
Finding she had moved
By the time I got there

[WOMAN]
Too much to ask?

[MAN]
She was over there

[WOMAN]
I was here
I was always here

[MAN]
Where the hell was there?

[WOMAN]
There was here
Could it be more clear?

[BOTH]
Groping like the blind
How we hoped to find
One place we could share
Faults we tried to hide
Living side by side
Funny, when they're there
They're there

[WOMAN]
There, there
And it isn't fair

[MAN]
No, it really isn't fair

[WOMAN]
That we wind up here

[MAN]
That we wind up here

[BOTH]
When we once were there
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo