Inventory of a Former Self (Version 2)

Verse

Box marked with a date

Tape gone yellow at the seam

Shelf number matches nothing

Nothing matches what I mean

Scanner finds the barcode

Reads it twice, comes back blank

I know the label's mine

I know I emptied out the tank

Pre-Chorus

Count the units

Check the list

Tell me what got kept

Tell me what got missed

Chorus

Everything accounted for

Nothing here is me

Everything accounted for

Still on the inventory

Verse

Aisle six, the light won't hold

Flickers on the empty crate

I know I filled it once

I know I sealed the freight

Forklift idles in the dark

Pallet jack won't turn

I know the numbers add up

I know they never learn

Pre-Chorus

Count the units

Check the list

Tell me what got kept

Tell me what got missed

Chorus

Everything accounted for

Nothing here is me

Everything accounted for

Still on the inventory

Bridge

Not the box

Not the tag

Not the weight I drag

Something else got logged

Something else stayed back

Chorus

Everything accounted for

Nothing here is me

Everything accounted for

Still on the inventory

Outro

Shelf number matches nothing

Scanner reads it twice

Still on the inventory

Still on the inventory