I know that you're free to leave, just as you are to stay
Until we fine-tune our gestures and forget language
That a look be enough to say that I love you
That a sigh be enough to decipher your fears
Maybe that's why you leave, maybe that's why you come back
Because of the new unbearable seriousness that terrifies us
That's why we keep loneliness forgotten
But it's that when we leave we both look back
And it may be that it's true and one day I'll leave too
That love doesn't last a century and the river doesn't run backward
And it may be that they're wrong, and fear plays us wrong
And that, to spare us pain, the wind may leave us behind
I know that you'll surely find a kiss that tastes the same
As my lips that now whisper your name softly so as not to face it
That I propose a deal because I can't take any more
With this constant attempt to run away just to come back
I propose that we look at each other slowly and make skin a home
That we escape under open sky, redo our idea of the sea
That we reinvent time again, leave the weapons in peace
Give meaning to the movement of a step that doesn't go back
And it may be that it's true and one day I'll leave too
That love doesn't last a century and the river doesn't run backward
And it may be that they're wrong, and fear plays us wrong
And that, to spare us pain, the wind may leave us behind
And it may be that it's true and one day I'll leave too
That love doesn't last a century and the river doesn't run backward
And it may be that they're wrong, and fear plays us wrong
And that, to spare us pain, the wind may leave us behind
Leave us behind, leave us behind