But I don't know how to hold someone
without losing my grip
You'll say I was bound to leave
Since I first stepped across the border
Since I crawled into your skin
Thought I heard you whisper in the dark
That you knew where the light would be
Thought I saw your shape against the black
Thought I felt you moving beside me
We are not alone and we are more alone
than we've ever been
So hurry up and lose me
Hurry up and find me again
So I'll pass the lumber mills
I"ll pass the coal mines and the parks
and the dried up oil fields
I'll pass a thousand lonely pines
that bend their backs against the sun
But I'll mistake the station birds
for the sound of my phone ringing
Thought I heard you whisper in the dark
that you knew where the light would be
Don't wait for me to walk a straight line
You can only hold your breath so long
We are not alone and we are more alone
than we've ever been
So hurry up and lose me
Hurry up and find me again
I am no less bound to you
Than when I crossed into your silence
when I held your solitude
But you never liked it when I'd play dead
and you wondered why my love songs
are always the grieving kind
Why I wander off the search for
my reflection in the crowd
Oh, forget I said love
and also, don't forget I said love
We are not alone and we are more alone
than we've ever been
So hurry up and lose me
Hurry up and find me again
Laura Gibson