Our friends were asking where you’d gone last night
I explained to them that you’re the northern lights
You were staring glass-eyed at a screen
Saying you want to disappear for good sometimes

I sat beside you at the edge of our bed
The skin below your eyes was red
And I touched your face, but you shook your head
I’m not the one you love, you said

But didn’t you take my breath away
As I followed you through the park?
Didn’t your fingers touch my hand in the crackling dark?

I am cold
You are lost
But we will meet again
We will meet again
Saw you dance like fire across my sky
We will meet again
We will meet again
My northern lights
My northern lights

I should’ve known you would come and go
But I don’t recognize us anymore
We face the same direction each night
Ignore the ghosts making love on the kitchen floor

Still recall your shifting shape
Pushing back against the stars
As we lay in the embrace of spiral arms

I am cold
You are lost
But we will meet again
We will meet again
Saw you dance like fire across my sky
We will meet again
We will meet again
My northern lights
My northern lights

Now a blinking red light in the corner
Keeps me company in the darkness
As I lie awake and miss you
From the other side of the mattress
Still I know this night is colder
Out where you are than where I am
Hope you don’t mind if your fingers touch my hand

’Cause I am cold
And you are lost
But we will meet again
We will meet again
Saw you dance like fire across my sky
We will meet again
We will meet again

I am cold
You are lost
We will meet again
We will meet again
Saw you dance like fire across my sky
We will meet again
We will meet again
My northern lights
My northern lights
My northern lights