Come Back...Be Here
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- Come Back...Be Here / Daylight (Eras Tour, Sydney)
- Come Back...Be Here / The Way I Loved You / The Other Side of the Door (Eras Tour, Lisbon)
- The Black Dog / Come Back...Be Here / Maroon (Eras Tour, London)
“Taxi cabs and busy streets”
Taxi cabs and busy streets as the New York register of the speaker's separation. The line names the chaotic surrounding city the speaker is alone in while the partner is elsewhere; the busy streets stand in for the world that does not pause for her loneliness.
“Taxi cabs and busy streets”
The taxis of a city she is alone in as the register of separation; the hired cars move around her while the one person she wants is elsewhere.
“One last kiss, then catch your flight”
The flight as the agent of separation. The line marks the boundary of the encounter, the kiss is final because the aircraft is waiting, and the verb 'catch' renders the partner's complicity in his own departure: he is not taken, he goes to it. The literal aviation does the work the song's longing won't say outright.