In the heart of the city, under the neon lights

Our paths crossed, igniting endless nights

Drawn together by an irrefutable force

Our lives starkly veered and took a new course

We partied and danced, like there would be no tomorrow

Stifling and burying our collective sorrow

We smoked and we drank and continued to consume

Ignoring our reality, our inevitable doom

Weeks turned to months, and months then to years

And we kept on running, never addressing our fears

We spent so much time orbiting one another

We never stopped to realize we didn't know each other

Never stopped to ask "Who are you? Who are WE?"

Instead we fell further into a together-but-separate fantasy

We were living as strangers, we just didn't know it

But eventually our faces started to show it

The stars in our eyes began to fade

Upon our shoulders, a burden clearly weighed

We went through the motions, tried to make things right

But it was very clear to us, there was no hope in sight

And then one day, as quickly as our start

You made the decision to silently depart

Though the silence between us had dragged on and on

It was still somehow quieter with you being gone

And after all this time, this distance, this blur

I just really wish I knew who you were