Everyone you hold takes a piece of you away;
Everyone you know pricks the image of the human clay
And everybody's laughing –
The joke goes mouth to mouth and slips away

Everyone you hold leaves you something of themself;
Everyone you told spreads your secret on the warehouse shelf
And everybody buys it
For everyone's in commerce and in trade

When every sweet embrace has faded
The voices dip, the faces dim and memory drifts away –
Still you stay in everyone you hold

Everyone you hold, no, they never leave your side;
Everybody knows there are secrets we can't hope to hide
If everyone is with you
Then you can never be alone at all
And everyone forgives you –
Accumulated whispers, Chinese walls

Now everyone you knew
With smiles that you've seen through
We flag, it's true...

But you're still in everyone you hold

Everyone you hold
Everyone you hold
Everyone you told
Knows