The Pull

I packed a suitcase for a different coast / Trying to outrun a particular ghost / I took the highway where the horizon is wide / Thinking I’d leave all the heavy inside / But there’s a physics to the things that we’ve done / An invisible string back to where we begun / I try to stand tall but the ground has a say / And it’s pulling my heart in a southernly way / Every atom is calling your name / Every atom is staying the same / Everything falls back to you / Everything falls back to you / Everything falls back to you / Everything falls back to you / I saw a picture of a house on a hill / And for a second the world was perfectly still / I felt the tug in the marrow of my bones / Like a magnet attracted to various stones / You are the center of the map that I drew / Every road that I build is a circle to you / It’s not a choice and it’s not a mistake / It’s just the inevitable bend in the lake / Gravity... / It’s only gravity... / I can’t fight the law of the earth! / I can’t fight the way that it works! / Down to the center. / Down to the core.