Blood Ties

There’s nobody I’d rather
Lose my mind to the sound of our song
You’re the closest thing to a blood tie
The most distant woman I know

I am safe in the arms of my other
I’m a stranger come late to the game
Just to watch from the stadium bleachers
As they pick you up and carry you away

When the ground opened up around you
And it threatened to swallow you down
You told me your fear of eternity
And what happens to us when we’re gone

And I feel like I missed in the moment
Everything that we’d left unsaid
But now every year in January
I think that I know what you meant
Oh I think that I know what you meant