Changer

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

I'm gonna go quietly

You dont have to tell me to

Just let me lie a little longer next to you

Not tryin' to bother you

I'm just tryin' to breathe you in

And then I will leave you there

Where you are sleeping

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

Worn in or stolen

Your shadow from me

But I hold its shape in my mind

The shape of your back

When you turned it on me

One last time

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

Watching the highways cross

Speaking of loving you I do

Telling you stranger to stranger

Whatever changes come to you

I'm telling you changer to changer

If I can't keep it

At least let me call it by name