I'm the limp in your gait and the way you hold a pen
When you walk my footsteps echo like an unfinished sentence
I'm the way you say your “oh's”, I'm your neatly folded clothes
You can catch me looking back out from the corner of your eye

If we had the time I would show you what I could never say
I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes

So you try to shake the weight, carve a new path of your own
Tear out every page that went before yours
But you can't hide the line that curves round your smile
Can you keep that for me?

If we had the time I would show you what I could never say
I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes
The mess of my mistakes

And all the while we live through each other
From host to host it travels with us
We can't escape it, it's in our nature
We're just pieces of something bigger

Do you redden at their questions as they pull you to one side?
Behind those gentle faces their eyes scrutinise
For my limp in your gait, my line round your smile
They'll frame you for every tell-tale sign

If we had the time I would show you what I could never say
I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes
The mess of my mistakes

And all the while we live through each other
From host to host it travels with us
We can't escape it, it's in our nature
We're just pieces of something bigger
And all the while we live through each other
From home to heartbreak it travels with us
At times we bloom into a brighter colour
But before long our time is over