Closer

In morning's first light on still folded sheets

After the sorriest excuse for a good night's sleep

We laid for hours that stretched into weeks

And after each pause, we traded thoughts and you'd softly speak

And it was faint, but I still made it out

All my own doubts falling out of another person's mouth

Oh, what a voice, oh, what a voice

How I did rejoice

In your parents' house, in your childhood bed

I watched the rise and fall of your ribcage with every breath

Making a makeshift space for me to rest my heavy head

And in that place, in those quiet days, I could hear it best

And I was calm, somehow while so distressed

When I heard my own heart beating in another person's chest

Oh, what a sound, oh, what a sound

Oh, I felt so found

And it resonates

Rolls 'round my skull and all around and throughout my brain

And I squirm, I twist and shake

As it courses its way through each and every vein

And it reverberates throughout my vertebrae

Oh, what a sound, oh, how I did shake

Almost restoring my long lost and fleeting faith in fate

I gave our love a sound

I passed the word around