Youme & Meyou

They build a ship each wintertime

for launch to sea before the storm

They don't just go from A to B

they go around and come around again

'cause out there's always a construction site

a Starbucks and

yet another Gugenheim

Youme knows what Meyou wants

Meyou knows what Youme wants

and it's granted

No more tassels on the hotel key

a phone line, a laptop

and a box of tangerines

They turn houses into homes

where earthquakes live with car alarms

mature mild-mannered catastrophes

They gift each other a thousand names

and take them off, take them off again

like excessive jewelry

Youme knows what Meyou wants

Meyou knows what Youme wants

and it's granted

They defend each other against the past

if the future isn't bright at least it's colorful

so burn the ship come spring

They fail, fail and try again

fall off a cliff, succeed, and fall, fall again

They have proven quite effectively

that bumblebees indeed can fly

against the field's authority

They invent each other ever anew

still they won't have a different view

of everyone or anything

Defend themselves against the whims of fate

question the statistics, accelerate

the status quo, deny the rules of gravity

But they don't use the word

once dropped it might break

They do not say that they have loved

for who can say

We were killed yesterday

Youme knows what Meyou wants

Meyou knows what Youme wants

and it's granted