You hang somewhere beyond my reach Quiet silver in the dark And I keep myself along the shore Like distance changes what we are I can tell my hands to stay here I can tell my feet don't move But the ocean doesn't need a reason To know what it's answering to So let the whole world make its noise Let it turn and rearrange There are things that bend with circumstance And things circumstance can't change You don't have to touch me to move me You just have to hang in my sky You're the moon and I'm the water And I've known it for a long, long time I can pull myself back when the water runs low I can wait on the shoreline and let the night go But wherever I am, there's one thing I know You're the moon that moves me And I'm your tide below Maybe right now isn't ours to hold Maybe patience has a price Maybe loving something built to last Means we don't have to steal tonight So I'll let the shoreline keep its boundary You can keep your place above There are ways of being faithful To a thing without rushing love And every time I pull away It isn't me changing my mind The tide can leave a mile of sand And still come home right on time We don't have to name the hour We don't have to force the sea What is real won't become less real Just because it has to breathe You don't have to touch me to move me You just have to hang in my sky You're the moon and I'm the water And I've known it for a long, long time I can pull myself back when the water runs low I can wait on the shoreline and let the night go But wherever I am, there's one thing I know You're the moon that moves me And I'm your tide below Maybe we're magnets pretending we're stars Keeping our distance, still pulling this hard Call it gravity, call it whatever you need I only know what you do to the sea The moon never falls into the ocean The ocean never climbs into the sky They don't have to close the distance To prove the pull survives So if tonight we're on two horizons If all we can do is give this time I'll remember Distance changes where the water is Not what moves the tide You don't have to touch me to move me You've been moving me all this time You're the moon and I'm the water And I'm done pretending I don't know why Let the shoreline hold us wherever it will Let the whole world tell the water to be still It can draw every line, but one thing is true Every tide inside me Still comes back to you We don't have to hurry toward forever We don't have to make tonight decide If the moon keeps rising over water Then the water's gonna answer every time So let the distance be the distance Let tomorrow come when it comes I don't need to chase what's always pulling I already know what this is between us You don't have to touch me to move me You never did You never will I'm the water You're the moon And I'll always feel the pull So stay there in my sky I'll stay here with the sea And when the distance changes You'll still be moving me Tide after tide Moon after moon Whatever happens on the shoreline Doesn't change What moves the water
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