Empire Builder

This is not an escape

But I don't know how to hold somebody

Without losing my grip

You'll say I was bound to leave

Since I first stepped across your borders

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 now 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 to 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