Wrong Side of Every Wall

I learned to keep my voice down
Learned to walk without a sound
There's a crack beneath the window
Where the cold gets in
And I press my mouth against it
Just to feel the wind
Someone's out there, I can feel it
Like a hand I've held before
Like a name I used to answer to
Behind a different door
And every night I'm singing
To the one I'm singing for

The clubs are loud, the neon bleeds
I play until my hands go numb
They say I play like something's chasing me
Like I'm outrunning where I'm from
But when the set is done I leave them all
And walk toward the grey
To stand where color stops
And press my hand against the place I can't explain

I can feel you through the stone
Like a signal in the cold
I was trained to trust the mission
But my hands won't do as told

I'll be on the other side
Where the scar runs through the sky
I have been here longer than
Any wall could stand
I will wait another thousand years
With my hand against your hand

Someone's watching from the corner
Someone's writing down my name
I was careful, I was quiet
But the echo doesn't care
It keeps bleeding through the concrete
It keeps singing through the air

I can feel you getting closer
I can feel the stone get thin
Every instinct says hold steady
But you're pulling me in

I'll be on the other side
I have crossed through every century
To be standing where I am
I will tear through every border
With my hand against your hand

I've been on the wrong side
Of every wall they've ever built
Stone and wire and ocean
Silence, distance, guilt
They keep building, I keep coming
They keep locking, I walk through
There is nothing they can put between us
That I won't break to get to you

I'll be on the other side
Where the scar bleeds through the sky
We have carried this through centuries
Through the fire and the flood
And the walls are finally falling
And I remember what we were
And I remember everything
And it's enough, and it's enough

I know you
You always do
Eventually