[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

[Refrain]
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
[Break]
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

[Refrain]
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