Changer

if i cant keep it,
at least let me call it by name.
that was called falling, this is called pain,
it's called love, what im losing.

i know love is a stranger,
i know that changes come,
i know love is a changer.

im gonna go quietly,
you dont have to tell me to.
just let me lie a little longer next to you.

not tryin to bother you,
im just tryin to breathe you in,
and then i will leave you there
where you are sleeping.

speaking of loving you, i do.
im telling you stranger to stranger.
whatever changes come to you,
im telling you changer to changer.

worn in or stolen, your shadow from me,
but i hold its shape in my mind,
the shape of your back
when you turned it on me,
one last time.

and out in the waking world,
nobody understands
exactly how light it is,
exactly how free i am.
one minute im laughing,
and the next one im lost.
im watching the birds fly by,
watching the highways cross.

speaking of loving you, i do.
telling you stranger to stranger.
whatever changes come to you,
im telling you changer to changer.

if i cant keep it,
at least let me call it by name.


Taal: Engels