Twenty Years in Orbit

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I knew your name before I knew your kiss Before forever ever looked like this Twenty years of passing through each other's skies Two familiar strangers with familiar eyes You had your ink and your impossible dreams Your science-fiction worlds and your crooked schemes I had a life that never stayed in place But somehow I kept finding your face [Pre-Chorus] Then all the roads we took apart Came crashing into one You were the friend I always knew And the love I didn't see coming [Chorus] Twenty years in orbit Six and a half on fire We turned a little friendship Into everything desired Put a future in your hands Put your heartbeat next to mine I thought we'd finally landed After circling all this time Oh, twenty years in orbit And I still know every star But how can someone be my home And still feel so damn far? [Verse 2] You had a way of making silence fun Your terrible jokes, your never-ending puns Your shadow following me room to room Like I was gravity and you were the moon We weren't a movie, we were bills and days Kids in the hallway, a million little ways Of saying love without a single word And making ordinary moments worth the world [Pre-Chorus] I didn't need a perfect man Or some cinematic scene I wanted all your messy edges And the life we built between [Chorus] Twenty years in orbit Six and a half on fire We turned a little friendship Into everything desired Put a future in your hands Put your heartbeat next to mine I thought we'd finally landed After circling all this time [Bridge] If love was only history We'd have enough to last But twenty years of knowing you Can't guarantee the next And I can trace our constellations Every moment, every scar I just can't make you stay beside me By remembering who we are [Final Chorus] Twenty years in orbit Six and a half in love I never thought the thing we built Could still not be enough And if you ever look behind you At the life we used to know Remember I was never just A place you came and went from I was home [Outro] Twenty years in orbit And I still know your stars I just don't know anymore If they're pointing where you are.