[Verse 1]

If I can't keep it

At least let me call it by name

That was called falling

This is called pain

It's called love, what I'm losing

I know love is a stranger

I know that changes come

I know love is a changer

[Verse 2]

I'm gonna go quietly

You don't have to tell me to

Just let me lie here a little longer

Next to you

I'm not trying to bother you

I'm just trying to breathe you in

And then I will leave you there

Where you are sleeping

[Chorus]

But speaking of loving you, I do

I'm telling you stranger to stranger

Whatever changes come to you

I'm telling you changer to changer

[Bridge]

Morning has stolen your shadow from me

But I hold its shape in my mind

It's the shape of your back when you turned it on me

One last time

[Verse 3]

And out in the waking world

Nobody understands exactly how light it is

Exactly how free I am

One minute, I'm laughing

And the next one, I'm lost

I'm watching the birds fly by

I'm watching the highways cross

[Chorus]

Speaking of loving you, I do

I'm telling you stranger to stranger

Whatever changes come to you

I'm telling you changer to changer

[Outro]

If I can't keep it, at least let me call it by name