Loyalty

Well, you called me
 Telephone ringing in the night
 And you asked me if I was alright
 Like an afterthought, an oversight
 And I stood, so surprised
 Trying to hold on to my pride
 So close, I could hear your low sigh
 I said I was fine, you said you were fine
 There's a loneliness, I don't lose sight of it
 Like a high distant satellite
 One side in shadow, one in light
 But I didn't mind to be alone that night, in a city, I'd never seen
 All these skyscrapers pooling on a prairie
 Built high and tall, as though they all compete
 Just to reach the darkness up above
 That once here had been
 Somewhere if there's a beauty you had seen in me
 That I wanted somehow to believe
 Drift of sentiment and memory
 That I couldn't have, I could not keep
 No, it never did belong to me
 It was only ever another thing I would carry
 Still it held me, loyalty, to a feeling, to some glimpse
 Of a love that was only ever a kind of distance
 That we could not cross
 "Gather no moss