[Intro] [High, shimmering piano notes echoing like light on water, over a low, humming cello.] [Verse 1: The North] [Vocal: Intimate, breathy, cold-weather tone] I’m pulling the curtains against the December grey, While you’re watching the ocean wash the heat away. I’m breath on a window, you’re salt on the skin, I’m locking the cold out, you’re letting it in. Ten thousand miles and a season between, The brightest of gold and the coldest of green. [Chorus] [Instrumentation: The heartbeat pulse grows stronger. Full, lush string swell.] Oh, we’re dancing in circles, 180 apart, With a different weather, but the same beating heart. When I’m in the shadow, you’re found in the light, One of us waking, one of us night. Living on the other side of the sun. Yeah, we’re living on the other side of the sun. [Verse 2: The Flip-Flop] [Vocal: Stronger, more resonant, more emotional] But the orbit is turning, the axis will lean, And we’ll trade the places and the spaces between. I’ll wake to the jasmine, you’ll sleep in the frost, Finding the blossoms that the other has lost. We’re flip-flop lovers on a celestial line, Ten thousand miles just to wait for the sign. [Bridge] [Crescendo: Orchestral and powerful. Wide stereo field.] Will we ever meet in the middle where our worlds align? In the brief, golden spring of a shared piece of time? Where the frost is all gone but the heat hasn't won, And we’re both on the very same side of the sun? [Chorus - Final] [Vocal: Soaring, high-fidelity, emotional climax] Oh, we’re dancing in circles, 180 apart, With a different weather, but the same beating heart. When I’m in the shadow, you’re found in the light, On the other side of the sun. [Outro] [Vocal: Fading, ghostly, echoing] Ten thousand miles... See you on the other side. See you on the other side of the sun. [Piano and cello resolve on a single, long-held chord.] [End]
