Alone (Live)

We were brought together by Circumstance,
swept up in the moment on a journey neither one of us had planned.
As the waning hours passed, we were adrift in time and space,
savoring the closeness and the magic that I still don't understand.

I fell in love with the mystery of you.
You came to me like music through fog, cool and intimate
yet somehow far away like yesterday's yesterday.
I've been alone for so long.

You were out there somewhere but so far away.
I should not have trusted Serendipity to keep you close to me.
I had no way to reach you, but I thought of what I'd say
when I saw you again
and through the mist you'd hear this broken poetry.

I fell in love with the mystery of you.
Fearful and naïve, I was terrified to humanize you.
If I did wrong, please forgive me 'cause I'm trying.
I've been alone for so long.
I've been alone for so long.

After so long, I see you alone, like a ray of sunlight,
piercing through my clouded mind.
I move toward you to greet you and tell you how I feel,
but words won't come from inside.
My mind, my heart, my lungs are constricted by some fear:
in dreaming, I am paralyzed.
I did not say a word and walked on by —
there's no language for loss.

I fell in love with the mystery of you.
Like Gatsby on the shore, I was speechless, enraptured by
the green light in your eyes, across the ebbing tide of my innocence.
I've been alone for so long.
I've been alone for so long.
I've been alone for so long.

I fell in love with the mystery of you.
If only I had known your beautiful reality,
the shadows on the cave walls would've seemed so dark and thin.
I've been alone for so long.
I've been alone for so long.
I've been alone for so long.