A bad hotel and one open restaurant are not a perfect reunion, but give both people the same unfamiliar ground. Neither has home advantage. Halfway is a place to begin speaking rather than a calculation of who conceded more.
The 74 BPM Celtic power-ballad direction trades silvery soprano and warm baritone verses over bouzouki, fiddle, low whistle, bodhran and broad strings. Compare ornamental phrase endings with widened chorus harmonies while keeping this exact recording distinct.
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[Verse 1]
You came four hundred miles
and you did not have to
and I came just as far
and I did not have to either
[Pre-Chorus]
And we picked a town that neither of us
had any reason to be in
[Chorus]
Meet me halfway, meet me halfway
neither of us wins
meet me halfway, meet me halfway
that is where it begins
meet me halfway
[Verse 2]
One night, one bad hotel
one restaurant still open
and everything we could not say by phone
came out between the courses
[Pre-Chorus]
And nobody had the upper hand
because nobody was home
[Chorus]
Meet me halfway, meet me halfway
neither of us wins
meet me halfway, meet me halfway
that is where it begins
meet me halfway
