I booked an early flight from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam,
had to the fight the impulse to leave as soon as I hit land.
Then you were nowhere to be found and this girl she had a place.
It should’ve never been that easy, but it was easy anyway.
I still love you
but I loved her too.
Is this the end?
Oh, is this the end?
I left Amsterdam a wholly different kind of man,
the remainder of the summer I spent drinking in your name.
But it was good to be away and it was good to be alone
and if somebody stayed the night in the morning they’d be gone.
I still love you
but I love summers too,
Is this the end?
Oh, is this the end?
You’d have made a sorry bride and I was born to be no groom,
I would’ve only spoilt the fun of wasting wishes on the moon.
You were always oh so pale as a windy day in June,
cold hands waving in the sun as the wheels start to move, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Someday I’ll return, I’ll return to Amsterdam,
another stranger in the springtime wondering just what might have been.
And if by chance I meet someone, it’ll take me all the way
back to the summer I enjoyed drinking rivers in your name
I’ll still love you, but
I’ll love her too
Is there no end?
Oh, is there no end?
credits
from The Collapse,
released October 28, 2016
Bart Davenport (bass, electric guitar, background vocals), Charlie Bautista (Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, synths, bells), Shawn Lee (drums, electric guitar), Yuri Méndez (acoustic guitar, vocals, percussion)
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