[Verse 1] I saw you standing where the streetlight— …flickers like it knows your name You didn’t turn, but I was certain— …you could hear me just the same There was a sound of something breaking— …maybe glass or maybe time And all the words I thought were waiting— …never made it past my mind [Pre-Chorus] You said it once, or maybe never— …hard to tell what still is true Every answer bends together— …when it’s coming close to you [Chorus] And maybe people are just shadows— …leaning where the light won’t stay And maybe love is just a question— …we forget how not to say Oh, I was reaching for the moment— …just before it slips away Where everything is almost spoken— …but never quite can stay [Verse 2] There’s a car that keeps on passing— …like it’s looking for a place And every window holds a fragment— …of a half-remembered face You start to say something important— …but the sentence falls apart Like it’s written in the distance— …just beyond the reach of heart [Bridge] If I could hold the space between it— …the word and what it means Maybe then I’d finally see it— …what you never said to me [Final Chorus] And maybe time is just a mirror— …tilted slightly out of frame And maybe we were always nearer— …than the distance we became I tried to tell you in the silence— …what the noise could never say But everything was left in balance— …and slowly drifted …away
