Solo

Thirty thousand feet above the frozen sound

Your reflection's caught between the glass and sky

The mountains know their shape, the water knows the ground

But I never knew what moved behind your eyes

We were always flying solo, even side by side

Even when your hand was resting on my knee

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 know exactly where we are

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 hand was resting on my knee

There's no bridge across the distance locked inside

You were you, and I was only ever me

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

We were always flying solo, that's the way it goes

Even when I memorized your breathing in the dark

There's a solitude the closest person never knows

You were you, and I was only—just a witness to your heart