The dark-room lamp glows red, the che-mi-cals smell
You load the film so slow, like you're a-fraid to tell
My hands shake in the tank while the se-conds swell
And you say “just wait till the blue shows well”
I wait for the blue to show, while you wait for me
The image fades in slow, what I wish I could see
In the dark-room you fell a-sleep, I took the shot
On that film that we both for-got
The rain fell on the school roof that whole June
We dried our prints in the dark-room un-der the moon
Now I'm dig-ging through old prints I kept since our youth
And the shad-ows of you are still re-newed
I found the ne-ga-tive to-day, in a box la-beled “Ju-ly”
The shad-ows are all I have left of you...
[Final Chorus] (key change, slightly louder)
I wait for the blue to show, while you wait for me
The image fades in slow, what I wish I could be
In the dark-room you fell a-sleep, I took the shot
On that film that we both ne-ver lost
I wait for the blue to show...
The blue... a-waits...