[Verse 1] Girl, it’s like we’re on the same piano But the notes fall at different speeds Far apart in the muted glow Of a divide between our needs We had it once, but we lost it slow Let it spill from our hands like change Or sweat on skin when the hot winds blow And nothing can feel the same [Verse 2] We let it run and sink down deep In the cushions where secrets sleep To harden, crust, and fade away Like dreams you forget by day Terrible, how we let it slide Past the hollow of vacant eyes As we lay still, in a silent trance Tracing the ghost of a last romance Punctuating the dark with light Lazy as puddles in streetlamp night Still humming with the world’s refrain Like steam after Florida rain [Verse 3] Still beautiful, but slower now It moves through the air somehow Silent, blind, yet still it flows Like sheets in a warm wind’s throw Out in the country, where skies are wide And the air feels freshly cried Green grass wears the mingled spell Of sweat and skin and faint Chanel Or the smooth warm curve of your back that lay Under fireworks on the Fourth of July When the night was dressed for paradise And I was lost in breathless heights Clothes damp from clouds I drifted through Like balloons in a fan — and all of it you
