Not a Love Story

It's not a love story
It's not a coming of age
It's not the kind of thing you put into a play
It's just a small story
Just two friends all grown up
It happens
It happens
It happens one day
Why today?

We saw our breath, though it was hardly winter
A passerby would say he'd seen it all before
The folded arms, the wounded eyes
The signs that we both ignored

The old cathedral looming in the shadows
The only thing we saw amid the threat of tears
We didn't speak, our lips were numb
The world didn't crumble

You say goodbye, but do you really know it's over?
You say goodbye, but do you comprehend it?
You go along, thinking that things like this never change
And then they go and change

It's not a love story
It's not a coming of age
It's not the kind of thing you put into a play
It's just a small story
Just two friends all grown up
It happens
It happens
It happens one day

Why does it keep coming back to one dark second?
We're skipping physics just to hold each other's hands
Our stomachs quake, our first mistake
We go on demanding more

Until we're sleeping in a squalid dorm room
The lower bunk
We hold each other so tight
'Cause there's no room here at all
We have to spoon or we'll fall
But we refuse, we will not say the bed is too small
For us

We only wanted more unending
More...A horizon stretching out as far as we can see
I'd have you. You'd have me
As sure as time would pass
As permanent as stone cathedrals

Maybe if we hadn't skipped physics
We'd know everything has a decay
We hadn't learned yet that each romance has a last day

Cathedral bells rang out to mark the hour
Reminding us that this was just another night
That hours pass, that morning breaks
That somehow there's still sunlight

You say goodbye, but do you really know it's over?
You say goodbye, but do you comprehend it?
There was a time when you were sure some things never change
But that can also change

It's not a love story
It's just a small story
And it happens one day
Why today?