[Verse] You met me in Manila After the calls from arrivals We found each other Through the crowd I was happy just to see you [Space] December air Rain against the glass Traffic moving slowly Through the city lights I kept looking through the window Trying to see it all Somewhere on the road to Tagaytay I still saw the boy you'd been And thought I was feeling The reconnection I'd come for [Space] Then you slipped it in casually [Space] "You'll be meeting my wife." [drop] And the ground fell through [Space] You said "If I told you You wouldn't come." Yeah Well That was supposed to be MY choice [Verse] I still walked inside Still hugged her Still smiled Like I wasn't screaming inside Like I wasn't trying To hold myself together In somebody else's reality And when the shock and disbelief finally showed Somehow THAT became the problem [dark melodic Interlude] [cello] (uneasy, surreal, off-kilter, 12 bars) [Intense] I called your sister crying From the other side of the world [Drop] She already knew [Groaning] [Small Instrumental] I used to think distance Was just distance [Space] Life Time Silence [Space] I didn't know How much could disappear Without a sound [Verse] [reflective] Sometimes I still see you The way you were before Barefoot in the yard Full of mischief and simple pleasures And I don't know When that ghost replaced you [longing] Or if I just kept believing In someone Who was already gone [Ending] Somewhere on the road to Tagaytay The ground fell through And nothing after that Ever felt quite solid again
