Lyric

I’ve seen you fall a hundred times, still standing tall

Eyes full of tears but you don’t break at all

You always think that somehow you’re to blame

But I can see it — he’s the one who hurts you in his name

I don’t understand how he can be that way

Hold me one night, then disappear the next day

I’ve got no strength left for his mystery

But when you’re here, I finally breathe

You and me, we’re not a love affair

We’re a shelter from the days that tear

We don’t need a thousand words

We read each other without being heard

No stories we pretend are true

Just this bond that follows us through

We promise nothing, yet tell it all —

Maybe that’s what we call “us” after all

I don’t want you thinking I’m waiting for something back

I just want to see you find what you lack

I’m not here to save you, only to stand by

You’ve got your light — I just lend you my fire when you’re dry

When you talk, the guilt fades from my chest

I feel less lost, a little more blessed

You don’t have to fix me or pull me through

But I feel stronger standing next to you

You and me, we’re not a love affair

We’re a shelter from the days that tear

We don’t need a thousand words

We read each other without being heard

No stories we pretend are true

Just this bond that follows us through

We promise nothing, yet tell it all —

Maybe that’s what we call “us” after all

I want you to know, even when he makes you cry

I’ll stay right here, I won’t say goodbye

Not to keep you close, not to make you mine

But so you know where you can rest sometimes

I rise a little more each time I fall

When I see in your eyes you believe in me at all

It’s more than love, it’s something that endures

A kind of bond that follows us through the years

You and me, we’re not a love affair

We’re a shelter from the days that tear

We don’t need a thousand words

We read each other without being heard

No stories we pretend are true

Just this bond that follows us through

We promise nothing, yet tell it all —

Maybe that’s what we call “us” after all

You and me, we’re not a love affair

We’re a shelter from the days that tear

We don’t need a thousand words

We read each other without being heard

No stories we pretend are true

Just this bond that follows us through

We promise nothing, yet tell it all —

Maybe that’s what we call “us”