Empire Builder

Intro x2 Em x2 Verse 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 (x2) 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 the 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 (x2) But I am no 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 Em (x4)