Twin Paradox

You left on my birthday
I stayed with the clocks
Same sky, two arrows
One heart, two shocks

You drift in the cold lane
I burn in the room
Your face in my window
My hands on the moon

You count the miles
I count the years
You hear the silence
I hear the gears

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
You come back young
I turn to dust

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
One of us runs
One of us trusts

Your watch kept the clean truth
Mine learned the bend
You kissed all the future
I watched mine end

I wore every second
Like iron skin
You came back shining
I wore it thin

You count the miles
I count the years
You hear the silence
I hear the gears

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
You come back young
I turn to dust

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
One of us runs
One of us trusts

If time is a mirror
Then tell me who breaks
If I never moved from
The bed that still aches

You took the long road
I took the fall
We split the same shadow
And lost it all

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
You come back young
I turn to dust

Twin paradox
Twin paradox
One of us runs
One of us trusts

Twin paradox
Twin paradox