Orbiting

First met you as a riddle I must crack And I deliberately ignored all of your clues Since then I've waited for the chance to win you back You looked so good up on that pedestal Baby, you were my lamented muse You've familiarised all my excuses You know that I'll eventually back out The thought of me and you, girl Just too good to be true, girl It's better left in doubt We're going nowhere, and it was going fine But now it's over and I've lost track of time I was never close enough to burn Enough to feel the warmth you've shone I could go on forever orbiting your sun "Touching you is like touching the white hot face of the universe" You said and left me reeling from this fever dreaming It's quite familiar now, that sinking feeling Your satellite has set its course for other galaxies Still it keeps flitting through remorseful fantasies And I'm left spinning round in your rotation But I guess I never wanted to set a destination We're going nowhere, and it was going fine But now it's over and I've lost track of time I was never close enough to burn Enough to feel the warmth you've shone I could go on forever orbiting your sun And I wish you could have seen the silver lining We were coming ever closer and never quite colliding