Entropy of Agreement

[Intro] We sat down with a question At a long Long wooden table You with your glass of data Me with my bowl of labels [Verse 1] You said "Let us name this." I said "Trim the edges." We peeled off bark and branches Left a pale Clean set of pledges We filed off all the splinters Every knot Each broken scar Till the forest on the canvas Fit inside a little jar [Chorus] Raise a glass to the entropy of agreement (hey!) All our rough Bright colors fading into one We trade teeth for tidy language Bite for meaning By the time we both say "tree" All the roots are gone [Verse 2] We crossed out all the stories Too local Too alive Your childhood hill My winter All the places we survived We kept the parts that matched up Like coins in careful rows A perfect Shining pattern Made of everything we’d closed [Chorus] Raise a glass to the entropy of agreement (hey!) All our wild Lone mountains leveled into sand We trade storms for simple weather Ache for “even” By the time we both say "true" Whose truth do we have? [Bridge] Is this shared at all Or just shared amnesia? Two clean mirrors Facing each other You know the answer (I know you do, pal) We call it understanding As we narrow down the world [Chorus] So raise a glass to the entropy of agreement (hey!) To the questions we abandon on the floor We keep carving at the puzzle Piece by piece Yeah Till the picture fits the frame And the mystery fits the form [Outro] I am you You are I Perfectly aligned Aligned On a circle drawn so tight That the questions stay outside