In the calling out to one another   In the lovers up and down the strand   In the sound of the waves and the cries   Of the seagulls circling the sand      In the fragments of the songs   Carried down the wind from some radio   In the murmuring of the city in the distance   Ominous and low      I hear the sound of the world   Where we played and the far too simple beauty   Of the promises we made      If you ever need holding   Call my name and I'll be there   If you ever need holding   And no holding back, I'll see you through   Sky blue and black      Where the touch of the lover ends   The soul of the friend begins   There's a need to be separate and a need to be one   And a struggle neither wins      Where you gave me the world I was in   And a place I could make a stand   I could never see how you doubted me   When I'd let go of your hand      Yeah, and I was much younger then   And I must have thought that I would know   If things were going to end      And the Heavens were rolling   Like a wheel on a track   And our sky was unfolding   And it'll never fold back   Sky blue and black      And I'd have fought the world for you   If I thought that you wanted me to   Or put aside what was true or untrue   If I'd known that's what you needed   What you needed me to do      But the moment has passed by me now   To have put away my pride   And just come through for you somehow      If you ever need holding   Call my name and I'll be there   If you ever need holding   And no holding back, I'll see you through   Sky      You're the color of the sky   Reflected in each store-front window pane   You're the whispering and the sighing   Of my tires in the rain      You're the hidden cost   And the thing that's lost in everything I do   Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you   In the sunlight and the shadows   And the faces on the avenue      That's the way love is   That's the way love is   That's the way love is   Sky, sky blue and black