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

It was always a marriage
From the moment that you stepped into my hallway

Shy as anyone I've 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
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 you and I on the other side of the world

Love it is no mystery it never has been
No not to me

I love because I see

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
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

Just like you in your defiance

You say you never questioned anything

You say you knew from the beginning

I ask for your hand in it

Some infinite understanding

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

I have 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 only on your presence

Like I don't count on nothing else

Oh it was always a marriage
From the moment that you stepped into my hallway

Shy as anyone I'd every known curious and alone