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The Law Says

The law says you and I belong to each other, George.
The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.
And there are a million miles of white snowstorms, a million
   furnaces of hell,
Between the chair where you sit and the chair where I sit.
The law says two strangers shall eat breakfast together after
   nights on the horn of an Arctic moon.

                     CALLS
Because I have called to you

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