Passport Moon

Nine o'clock your side. Midnight mine
Go to the window

We made the deal on a bad-line Tuesday
Whenever it's full, we both look up
You from the veranda with your tea going cold
Me from a parking lot, coffee in a cup
No visa checks the sky for papers
No border guard patrols the light
The same white coin above your mangoes
Is spending itself on my desert night

They stamped my book at the border
Nobody stamped the sky
Half of the moon is your curfew
Half of the moon is mine

Passport moon! (passport moon)
The only country we both live in
Look up at nine, I'll look at twelve —
One light on two windows, passport moon

Same moon. (same moon)
Different country. (same moon)
One light, two windows

You send a photo of it rising
Blurry over the tuck-shop roof
I send it setting past the streetlight —
Between us, that's a kind of proof
Your gogo says the moon's a gossip
It sees us both and tells no lies
So I told it everything on Thursday
Check the crater on the left-hand side

They stamped my book at the border
Nobody stamped the sky
Half of the moon is your curfew
Half of the moon is mine

Passport moon! (passport moon)
The only country we both live in
Look up at nine, I'll look at twelve —
One light on two windows, passport moon

Truth is, the ocean's just a rumour
The moon has never once believed
It drags your tide, it drags my hallway light —
One gravity, one lease
When I finally land in December
We'll stand in one yard and look up once
And it'll be ordinary. Perfect

Eh-eh. (look up)
Eh-eh. (look up)
One light. (two windows)

(Midnight mine)
One light, two windows

Passport moon! (passport moon)
Look up at nine, I'll look at twelve —
One light on two windows, passport moon

Different country. (same moon)

The only country we both live in

The only country we both live in
One yard in December, one look up —
One light, one window, passport moon

Nine o'clock your side
(Midnight mine)
One light, two windows