Get It Together

We used to know

the names next door.

Now we know

what strangers think at night.

More locks on the door.

Less sleep behind it.

Funny how that works.

More locks, less sleep.

And I know how this sounds.

You're tired. I'm tired too.

Everybody's tired —

that's the trick of it.

Look at us.

Baby, look at us—

We could get it together.

Get it together.

The door only opens from both sides.

Nobody wins this one alone.

We could get it together —

or be right instead,

one by one,

in the dark.

(one by one, in the dark)

We're not eating right.

We don't go outside.

We flinch at good news

like it's a trick.

Everyone's shouting look at me.

Nobody's been seen in years.

And I keep saying we

like I'm not in the room.

Like my hands are clean.

They're not clean.

There's a piece I won't put down.

It's small.

That's what we all say —

it's small—

We could get it together.

Get it together.

The door only opens from both sides.

Nobody wins this one alone.

We could get it together —

or be right instead,

one by one,

in the dark.

(one by one, in the dark)

I dreamt we made it.

It wasn't even hard.

We just went first.

All of us went first.

And I woke up smiling.

You know what happened next.

The day came in.

We could get it together!

Get it together!

The door only opens from both sides —

so both of us go first!

Get it together —

or be right,

one by one,

in the dark.

One by one, in the dark.

We were always going to fix it later.

We're nearly out of later.