First Night Out

The gate is behind us now.

The grass is the same grass.

Then why does it taste different.

Why does the dark stand taller out here.

First night out, and the sky won't end.

First night out, and the quiet is loud.

Hold whoever's next to you.

We are very small, and we are ours.

First night out.

Nobody's counting us to sleep tonight,

so nobody sleeps. Nobody wants to.

We lay down looking up

for the first time in our lives.

The cold gets in. We let it.

Cold is the price of the sky.

First night out, and the sky won't end.

First night out, and the quiet is loud.

Hold whoever's next to you.

We are very small, and we are ours.

First night out.

Somewhere behind us

the ballroom is playing

to fewer and fewer.

Let it play.

First night out, and the sky won't end.

First night out, and the quiet is loud.

Hold whoever's next to you.

We are very small, and we are ours.

(ah———)

First night out.

And nobody called us in.