You and I (On the Other Side of the World)

Oh-ooh, it was always a marriage
 From the moment that you stepped
 Into my hallway, shy as anyone I've ever known
 You choose what to believe in
 In this flippant time there's no real reason not to
 We wrote letters to each other as though addressing the ocean
 That we stand before now, you in my old cardigan
 And I in your blue jeans
 And the light turned golden on the distant headlands
 And the ocean, you and I on the other side of the world
 Love, it is no mystery
 It never has been
 No, not to me
 I love because I see
 But we never got better, we never got to talking
 We never figured out the questions, we got good at walking
 Walking the streets
 When it was too hot to eat
 Walking in step, we can't help it
 You remember in June, you showed up one day
 With a small leather suitcase swaying your walk
 And you stayed on with me late into the evening
 Into all the years that have passed on since then
 No certainty, no agreement
 More intimate than I could imagine
 But with space I cannot fathom
 Like a song with so much silence
 Or just like you in your defiance
 You say you never questioned anything
 You say you knew from the beginning
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 I ask for your hand in it, some infinite understanding
 But I don't know nothing of what I am asking
 I've no idea of what it will entail
 I asked for your hand
 Like it was too intimate to ask for your mind
 Or to count on kindness
 Like I count only on your presence
 Like I don't count on nothing else
 Oh, it was always a marriage
 From the moment that you stepped into my hallway
 Shy as anyone I'd ever known, curious and alone