I thought I'd float
How far does my life reach
And where does the night begin?
The first stanza has five lines
Rilke inserts an orphan
That has no rhyme reference
I thought I'd float
The third middle line floats
I could even grasp the stars
Hold them inside, so vast
My heart seems so huge; how gladly
Would it let them go again
Or should we rather say
Of Rilke's female part
There you go, lucky again
Did they rethink it for me again?
The others are all coming too
What are you doing the whole time?
We're just together
All this isn't good for you
Hey Hannah, you okay?
I know every breath you take
Nothing about you is strange
Who knows your life better
Back then on those hot summer days
We let ourselves drift off the jetty
And we swore
What would've become of us
The kids from the far north
The best friends, as long as I can remember
The years have passed
I lied to myself more and more
Because I never found the right words
Because I just see more in us
Because I see more in both of us
Because I just see more in us
You had a chick like that
But didn't deserve her at all
I never forgot it
We both lived through so much
And meet on Fridays for dinner
You're still the girl from back then
With freckles on your face
You talk about big adventures
And laugh a lot when you speak
You really can't stand me at all
You always come when I'm not around
I just like being alone with him
It's now more than twenty months
You don't wanna do that
The doctors said from the start
'The brain damage is irreparable.'
I know he's still there
He won't come back
Hannah, what happened back then
It's not your fault
What would've become of us
The kids from the far north
The best friends, as long as I can remember
The years have passed
And I bent myself more and more
Because I never found the right words
Because I just see more in us
Because I see more in both of us
Because I just see more in us
I thought I'd float
How far does my life reach
And where does the night begin?