Still Dreaming

So, you’re back in Berlin and I’m trying everything I can. I got up early and started doing things, I cleaned a little, I went out for coffee. I am going to go work out now.

But I can’t stop thinking about you. I want to text you but I won’t. You are in another place and another moment and I want you to be there. It’s ok. It’s just that everything in my heart is touched by you and misses you.

So here is a song. I don’t know if you will check this website at all, but here it is. I need to get it off my chest.

The first time I heard Leonard Cohen’s “Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” sung by Roberta Flack, I thought it was too flat, too boring. But the words caught me and now the tune moves me as well. It’s so simple but it captures the right feeling, and it stays with me. Listen a few times.

Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

Lyrics:
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
Many loved before us, I know we are not new,
In city and in forest, they loved like me and you,
Now it’s come to distances, both of us must try,
Your eyes fill with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

I’m not looking for another as I wander in my time,
Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
You know my love goes with you. Your love stays with me,
It’s just the way it changes, like the shoreline of the sea,
Let’s not talk of love or change, things we can’t untie,
Your eyes fill with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
And your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
Many loved before us, I know we are not new,
And in city and in forest, they loved like me and you,
But now’s it’s come to distances, both of us must try,
Your eyes fill with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

I’m not looking for another as I wander in my time,
Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
You know my heart goes with you. Your love stays with me,
It’s just the way it changes, like the shoreline of the sea,
But let’s not talk of love or change, things we can’t untie,
Your eyes fill with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

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