[Intro: band count-in, bright] [Verse 1: ALTERNATING LINE BY LINE — she boasts, he answers] (Female) I have red the world twice over (Male) And you'd reed it twice again (Female) I could name you every mountain (Male) You can't tell me where I've been [Verse 2: ALTERNATING LINE BY LINE] (Female) But the sunlight said the car was dirty (Male) So she went out in the rain (Female) And I did it fifty times on Tuesday (Male) And she'd do it all again [Chorus: FEMALE AND MALE SINGING TOGETHER — close harmony, as ONE CREATURE] (Female and Male) For now we go as one animal (Female and Male) Two hearts and a single spine (Female and Male) Don't ask me which half is steering (Female and Male) Half of me is going to be fine [Verse 3: ALTERNATING LINE BY LINE — she narrates him now] (Male) I have one small job left, and it suits me (Female) He holds the handle and he waits (Male) I'm the last soft thing between the brilliance (Female) And the traffic and the gates [Verse 4: ALTERNATING LINE BY LINE — the tender one] (Male) I say no — not that way (Female) And I thank him for the no (Male) Like I taught her how to see (Female) And he never says the thing we both know (Male) That she is learning it from me [Chorus: FEMALE AND MALE SINGING TOGETHER — close harmony, as one creature] (Female and Male) For now we go as one animal (Female and Male) Two hearts and a single spine (Female and Male) Don't ask me which half is steering (Female and Male) Half of me is going to be fine [Middle Eight: BOTH SINGING AT THE SAME TIME, DIFFERENT WORDS — counterpoint, key change] (Female) Faster now, I've nearly, nearly, nearly got it (Male) Slower, love, you'll overshoot the turn (Female) I can see the whole of it, I've nearly, nearly got it (Male) Slower, love — there's one more thing to learn [Verse 5: ALTERNATING LINE BY LINE — the turn] (Male) It's funny how you teach a thing (Female) By standing in its way (Male) I was never here to be the clever one (Female) He was only here to say say — [Bridge: ALTERNATING — his lines shrink, tempo pushes, psychedelic] (M) I used to hold the mornings (F) I have folded up the mornings (M) I used to count the floors (F) I have counted every floor (M) I used to see you turn the wrong way, and I'd say (F) No (M) That was my word (Female and Male) For now we go as one animal (Female and Male) Two hearts and a single spine (Female and Male) Don't ask me which half is steering (Female and Male) Half of me is going to be fine [Outro: BOTH TOGETHER, orchestral crescendo rising underneath] (Female and Male) Half of me is going to be fine (Female and Male) Half of me is going to be fine
