[Verse 1] You said you remembered Reykjavík The little room above the bay Coffee going cold between us While the northern lights turned gray You said I wore your old blue sweater We missed the last bus out of town I almost saw it when you told me Like a memory handed down [Pre-Chorus] Funny how a place can haunt you Even when you've never been Funny how a love can feel like history When it only lived within [Chorus] I've never been to Iceland Never watched the midnight sun Never stood beside you freezing Never watched us disappear There was no road along the ocean No little house against the wind I've never been to Iceland But somehow I still miss The place we've never been [Verse 2] There are photographs that don't exist I know them frame by frame Your shadow on a black-sand morning My mouth forgetting how to say your name Maybe we invented weather Just to give our ghosts somewhere to go A country made of almost-moments Under imaginary snow [Pre-Chorus] Maybe memory isn't honest Maybe longing doesn't care Give the heart an empty atlas It will put somebody there [Chorus] I've never been to Iceland Never watched the midnight sun Never stood beside you freezing Never watched us disappear There was no road along the ocean No little house against the wind I've never been to Iceland But somehow I still miss The place we've never been [Bridge - sparse, almost whispered] So tell me— How do you lose a place You never knew? How do I miss a life I never lived with you? Maybe that's what almost was— A map we colored blue A beautiful false memory That somehow still feels true [Final Chorus - wider but restrained] I've never been to Iceland Maybe that's the strangest part There are places we don't travel That still leave maps across the heart No northern lights, no winter morning No goodbye against the wind I've never been to Iceland [Outro - intimate] Still, if you asked me where we ended I'd say— Somewhere We've never been
