Me and Us - Punch Brothers

We go to bed and you fall asleep, fall asleep, not me

We go to bed and I lie awake, lie awake and

Float out the window and down the street, over the bridge and

Into the village for a little break from me, meaning us

I float away and you disappear, disappear

Some pretty young villager takes my hand and leads me to more

Pretty young villagers forming a ring, forming a ring around

A bonfire built on a line in the sand between me and us

Am I lost, have I lost, have they thrown me on the fire

There to dance in the flames, far enough from you to wonder

If me still means us

She leads me to the end of the night, a boyfriend of hers is there

You’re on his arm, but our eyes don’t meet, our eyes don’t meet cos

We only have eyes for fueling the fire, being melted down and reformed

In the image of wilder things, wilder things than us

Are we lost, have we lost, have they thrown us on the fire

There to dance in the flames, far enough from one another

We fed them to the flames, but they’re just getting colder and colder

The boy’s at least half again as selfish, and the girl’s feeling a day

Older per hour

But there’s no help for them now

Because together looks good when you’re alone looks good

When you’re together

And it takes a village older and less inclined to say which is better to say

Which would be better