Loyalty

Well you called me Telephone ringing in the night And you asked me if I was alright Like an afterthought, an oversight And I stood so surprised Trying to hold on to my pride So close I could hear your low sigh I said I was fine, you said you were fine There’s a loneliness, I don’t lose sight of it Like a high distant satellite One side in shadow, one in light But I didn’t mind to be alone that night in a city I’d never seen All these skyscrapers pooling on a prairie Built high and tall, as though they all compete Just to reach the darkness up above That once here had been Somewhere if there’s a beauty you had seen in me That I wanted somehow to believe Drift of sentiment and memory That I could not have, I could not keep No, it never did belong to me It was only ever another thing I would carry Still it held me, loyalty, to a feeling, to some glimpse Of a love that was only ever a kind of distance that we could not cross “Gather no moss”