Pictures came back from Mars, a new golden age we're told Mars had rivers, lakes, and seas but they've never seem to take hold And in the emptiness my mind goes back to you We live beneath, we live above and we live below All of us next to each other, we're so utterly alone And we were in this all together, now we're on our own And you learn tenderness is essential And you learn the only thing I know Is how we hold each other right now Make do with someone new, but it's too scary to ignore It won't dent my isolation, and we change what we're looking for Still, we've learned what's worth our time and what's a bore And you learn tenderness is essential And you learn the only thing I know Is how we hold each other right now Like a dust storm we got caught I came out with the balance of an astronaut Meet me in the garden by the road, and we'll drive up the coast I've been sleepwalking all year, but I didn't give up this ghost And it all seems like we've been so alone And the veil lives on death we lived in No more proxies and no more stand in's, skies open up The only thing I know is how we hold each other right now Ooh, the only thing I know is how we hold each other right now