I must admit it's a balancing act 

It looks dangerous, that's part of it 

Remember, don't look down 

You and I standing in a crowded room 

We were pressed together but we're holding on 

Like we're all that was 

That's all there was 



In a flash of light 

We were drunk, we were having a fight 

I was wrong, that don't mean you were right 

Then you played that song 

It was a thousand seconds long 

It didn't end, it seemed to play on all night 

'Cause if I remember right I fell asleep there 



Rainclouds passed and darkened more 

An evening touched by waiting for the sky burst 

Storms had gathered in crushing lines 

I surrendered to a way that I remembered you 

That's all there was 



If I were forced to choose 

What I have, I have to lose 

I need love, that don't mean I need you 

It started with that song 

It was a thousand seconds long 

It didn't end 'cause we never got through 



And did you think that I had planned it all along, 

Hoping not to be alone? 

Well I was there on the edge of the rush 

And did you leave because you thought that I would stay, 

Stricken with a holy fright? 

And it was clear as the night in the cold 

And I won't ever know what you're afraid of 



And when the world ends 

A thousand seconds too 

We'll watch the time pass 

Run through the high end too 



And then we'll wait there 

A thousand seconds too 

That's when it all ends 

A thousand seconds too