[Verse 1]

It could be cold

But what's cold anyway?

Cold's just the stillness of small things

And stillness is the key

We're face to face

We have been shut away

Time is just the passing of glances

And both of us can see

If I could I should cry in the hope you would answer

But we're locked in this now but we'll fail to remember

Opinions and feelings, just games and faces

In this low-power state I still make sense of stasis


[Chorus]

And time does not go by

Time does not go by


[Verse 2]

It could be love

But what's love anyway?

A variable state or a process?

I can't run frames to see

You can't keep having time forever

At some point you arrive at a moment

Or so it seems to me

If I could I should blink and hope for some tremor

Some tiniest flinch to show it together

But the moment repeats like the low-power drone

We part as we meet, we are static alone


[Chorus]

And time does not go by

Time does not go by


[Verse 3]

If I could I should smile I should reach out with arms

I would gentle your heart, we'd be static and calm

And time would intrude, and we'd beg for each day

As we fell from each other, clutched and decayed


[Chorus]

But time does not go by

Time does not go by