You and I (On the Other Side of the World)

[Verse 1]

Oh, it was always a marriage

From the moment that you stepped into my hallway

Shy as anyone I'd ever known

You choose what to believe in in this flippant time

There's no real reason not to

We wrote letters to each other

As though addressing the ocean

[Chorus]

That we stand before now

You in my old cardigan and I in your blue jeans

And the light turned golden

On the distant headlands and the ocean

And you and I on the other side of the world

[Post-Chorus]

Love, it is no mystery, it never has been

No, not to me

I love because I see

[Verse 2]

But we never got better, we never got to talking

We never figured out the questions, we got good at walking

Walking the streets when it was too hot to eat

Walking in step, we can't help it

[Chorus]

You remember in June?

You showed up one day with a small leather suitcase

Swaying your walk and you stayed on with me

Late into the evening

Into all the years that have passed on since then

With no certainty, no agreement

More intimate than I could imagine

But with space, I cannot fathom

Like a song with so much silence

Or just like you in your defiance

[Post-Chorus]

You say you never questioned anything

You say you knew from the beginning

[Verse 3]

I ask for your hand in it, some infinite understanding

But I don't know nothing of what I'm asking

I've no idea of what it will entail

I asked for your hand

Like it was too intimate to ask for your mind

Or to count on kindness like I count on your presence

Like I don't count on nothing else

[Outro]

Oh, it was always a marriage

From the moment that you stepped into my hallway

Shy as anyone I'd ever known

Curious and alone