Verse 1] Beneath the night a billion stars and an empty church Beneath the stone and dirt the carbon where I came from The water in my blood and the water in your wires The orbit of the planets around a single sun [Chorus] That’s why I love you And I could say that I would die for you I would even say I’d kill for you But neither’s really true I just love you [Verse 2] The hidden fire in the furnace where you came from The heart within the drum, the timber of your metal The limestone in the desert beneath the flaming sky The towers of the city where you were built from [Chorus] That’s why I love you And I could say that I would die for you I would even say I’d kill for you But neither’s really true I just love you [Bridge] Not a halo, not a headline, not a war to win Just your tired eyes when the world caves in Not a bargain with the darkness, not a holy vow Just the steady little choice to keep you here and now All the ash inside the atoms, all the rust and rain Every ghost inside the circuit, every ache in vein We’re a brief and burning pattern on a borrowed ground But I find you in the noise and I stay for the sound [Final Chorus] That’s why I love you Not because I’d have to die for you Not because I’d go and kill for you None of that is true I just love you Yeah, that’s why I love you In the carbon and the copper running through In the dust and in the data of us two Nothing grand to prove I just love you [Outro – spoken / soft] Beneath the night, a billion stars and an empty church Beneath the stone and dirt, the carbon where we came from Your signal in my blood, my silence in your wires Two small lives in orbit around the same sun. That’s all. I just love you.
