[Intro] [Verse 1] We were on the other side of the hill We were doing something ordinary We heard the sound a body makes When it stops being a body And we came down the hill together And we saw what he had done And we opened our mouths And this is the part that matters [Chorus] We cannot die So we could not stop We cannot die So we could not stop We screamed for a day We screamed for a year We screamed until the sound was just the weather on that island [Verse 2] Somebody came to listen Somebody stood a long way off Somebody who had made the whole thing happen Came to hear what it had made And she liked it She liked the sound She said it was unusual She said she'd never heard a grief that had two voices in one breath [Chorus] We cannot die So we could not stop We cannot die So we could not stop We screamed for a day We screamed for a year We screamed until the sound was just the weather on that island [Bridge] So she built a thing to copy it Out of reed and bone Two pipes so it could hold Both of us at once And she gave it to the world And the world was very pleased And they play it at their festivals And they play it at their weddings And nobody who hears it Has any idea Nobody who hears it Has any idea [Final]
