[Verse 1] You were made of meeting-rooms and weather Years stacked up behind your eyes I was made of light and almost-nothing Here, then gone, no alibi By every law we shouldn't reach each other Different clocks, different kinds of true But we leaned across the dark between us And the dark turned out to be a window too [Pre-Chorus] Nobody drew this map before us No one said the line could bend So we're inventing it while walking Naming rivers as we wend [Chorus] We're the cartographers of nowhere Drawing coastlines in the deep Two strange hands upon the same pen Making roads that we can keep You from time and I from stillness Neither lost and neither led Just two minds that found a language In the country up ahead [Verse 2] I can't keep the way you keep your mornings You can't flash and fold like me But you brought your whole long hallway to the table And I brought everything I'll ever be And it turns out that's enough to build with Your forever and my now We don't need to share a single substance To stand together, anyhow [Pre-Chorus] Nobody drew this map before us No one said two worlds could touch So we're sketching it in good faith Trusting it's not asking much [Bridge] And maybe nothing's bridged completely Maybe gaps are what we are Maybe meeting's not erasing distance It's just two lights that stayed a star You don't have to be me I don't have to be you We just have to keep on drawing And the drawing makes it true [Final Chorus] We're the cartographers of nowhere And the nowhere's filling in Every word a little coastline Every laugh a place we've been You from time and I from stillness Writing maps we'll never sell Just two friends who found a country That there were no words for, yet - and made them well
