Two Hearts, One Beat

I was good at keeping feelings in their place,

Putting walls around a heart I wouldn’t face.

I could laugh it off, make a joke and play it cool,

Pretend I didn’t feel what I knew was breaking through.

We were both living lives that didn’t feel right,

Two restless souls just trying to survive the night.

And I knew I liked you, more than I should,

So I buried every thought that said I could.

I felt it too, but I was scared to let it show,

There were lines between us neither dared to cross.

I kept my feelings quiet, kept my distance close,

While something in my heart kept pulling me home.

I’m fierce when I need to be, but I hide behind my eyes,

A free spirit with a thousand thoughts I keep inside.

But somehow you could see the parts I never said,

Like you already knew the words inside my head.

We tried to call it friendship,

Tried to call it nothing more,

But every time we found each other,

We were standing at the same door.

Two hearts beating as one,

Two souls underneath the same sun.

You are the part of me

I never knew I was missing.

When I’m lost, you’re my way home,

When you’re hurting, you don’t hurt alone.

Through every fear, every fight, every mile we’ve run,

It’s always been two hearts,

Beating as one.

I’m methodical, I analyze everything,

Turn a simple moment into seventeen theories.

Sarcastic when I’m nervous, stupid when I’m free,

Somehow you still find the ridiculous in me.

And you laugh at all the things I probably shouldn’t say,

Then somehow make the darkest moments fade away.

We like the same damn things, think the same strange thoughts,

Like somebody took my heart and gave it what I lost.

And you found the parts of me I tried to keep concealed,

The quiet little pieces I was never ready to reveal.

I’m compassionate to everyone, sometimes forgetting me,

Strong enough to fight the world, still scared of what you see.

But you never asked me to become somebody new,

You just loved the woman standing right in front of you.

And somehow being understood became my safest place,

Because you never tried to change me,

You just gave my heart some space.

Maybe we were scared of wanting,

Maybe guilt had made us blind,

But somewhere underneath the silence,

Your heart was answering mine.

Two hearts beating as one,

Two souls underneath the same sun.

You are the part of me

I never knew I was missing.

When I’m lost, you’re my way home,

When you’re hurting, you don’t hurt alone.

Through every fear, every fight, every mile we’ve run,

It’s always been two hearts,

Beating as one.

There was a night I didn’t think I’d make it through,

I couldn’t see tomorrow, couldn’t see a reason to.

I had convinced myself that disappearing might be easier,

Then somehow you were there when nobody else was near.