Side by Side

Thirty thousand feet above the sound gone still

Your reflection on the glass, against the sky

The mountains know the sea, the water knows the shore

But I never learned the language in your eyes

We were always flying solo, even side by side

Even when your pulse was resonating through me

There’s no bridge across the distance locked inside

You were you, and I was only ever me

I can trace the shoreline, every inlet, every bay

The pilots call our heading from afar

But all those nights I held you, I was continents away

You were close enough to touch and still too far

We were always flying solo, even side by side

Even when your pulse was resonating through me

There’s no bridge across the distance locked inside

You were you, and I was only ever

And maybe that’s the ache that makes us beautiful

Two separate engines humming through the cold

The truth that no one teaches till you’re dutiful:

We’re each alone in everything we know