It's that one song we both loved,
I played it to you the night 
we finally met face to face 
and I was probably too nervous
when trying to explain what it meant.

To me it was the hum of your car 
silently driving through some neon city,
homesick for a place you've never been to,
the longing for a touch when the nights
are just starting to leave us with
a phantom chill caressing skin.

One body calling out to another
and even though we were unsure
of what such a beautiful collide
could turn us into after,
we ache for it without words
like we know every melody already
but shouldn't yet give it a voice.

Just let the notes play across your skin.

You listened to me for so long that night

And that song played on as we lost ourselves
inside the slowest kiss that proved it will
always be the little moments we'll hold close,
the ones that will crush us the most 
before we're a blur of impatient flesh,
we had waited more than long enough.

And that melody was floating around us,
merged with the way your breath changed,
I could only catch the faintest trace 
of a song from another life long ago
in the way I said your name when I couldn't 
help my lips trembling against your ear.

The song hummed and pulsed and was 
a soft light against summer darkness,
a stillpoint among our hungry velocity
that flared with its own potent glow,
the kind that only illuminated from within.

To me it was an iridescence like streetlamps
against your frame when we first met,
you were almost shaking when I hugged you
and I realized I had been homesick
all these years until I finally felt you,
every touch before had been nothing
more than a chilled phantom caress.

One body calling out to another
right before we collide and seek
every ache that has been churning
unanswered for far too long.

Just let that note play across your heart.

You kept me inside you for so long that night.

And I wonder if something passed on
from me to forever slip within you
as that music layered one texture
on top of another almost in the same way
you straddled and forever claimed me,
it was something I gave without question,
the core of all I'll ever be and the secrets 
that will come with such a joining.

I can only think of one kept from you.

That I will never know how to let you go
but I know this is where I am most at home.

You held me in the dark for so long that night.

Just letting that note play across your soul.