Suppose we pretend
It's not really the end
The year could stretch into summer
Then come round again

There's hearts on a line
They're hung up there to dry
But there's blood in a stone
And there's still blood in mine

So write your secrets, and sing me your truth
Have we built a cathedral and set fire to the roof?
Are they houses of God if the stone is made flesh,
And when the last ember darkens, there's nothing else left?

It's a rock for the ages
It's the light on the ranges
It's the love between strangers
That can only know changes

The year meets its last
In the grape and the glass
An unkind remembrance
Of holes in our past

Memories used up
In the grain and the cup
We'd float with the tide
But there's something else stuck

There's a moon overhead but it's cold and dark
And I've been watching the fireworks alone in the park
It just takes a match to give birth to that spark
In that moment, a new moon don't seem all that dark

It's just a rock for the ages
It's the beasts in our cages
It's the love between strangers
That can only know changes

That can only know change...
When I change I will still be the same
The same ocean with a different name
The same orbit on a whole 'nother plane
The same building just weathered by rain
The same stranger who loves you
But never in vain

Suppose we pretend
That it's almost the end
The year could vanish at midnight
And not come again

There's hearts in a line
And one of them's mine
There's blood in a stone
If you just hold on tight