Changer - Anaïs Mitchell

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 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

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

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

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

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

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