The Last Time I Saw You - Vanguart, Mallu Magalhães

The 1st time I saw you

I did try hard to burn my eyes

Life was but a sad dream

I was but a sad breath

You were something like sand

When sunlight hits the sea

The 2nd time I saw you

I was about to take the road

I asked «Would you wait for me?»

You said «Life ain’t a highway»

Better if we’d been born

As siamese songbirds

The 3rd time I saw you

We went to the zoo

All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys

Big eyes laughing

Wish I had not held hands

The 4th time I saw you

It was like I was gonna die

I was waiting outside

And you just had a new guy

And asked me why, I, I

Son, son, won’t you come along?

We have no time for another song, song, song

Won’t you sing along?

We have no sea, child

The 5th time I saw you

He was traveling abroad

And your eyes, they were not here

You just made new friends

While I tried to stop with cigarrettes

The 6th time I saw you

I was properly insane

For the whisky I’d drunk

The drugs I’d taken

Gimme one way you will realise

The 7th time I saw you

You were married again

And if I had just once kissed you

Things wouldn’t be the same

Surely the sky’d be different

The 8th time I saw you

I was strumming the guitar

And your ears were not for me

My ears were a-bleeding

The waiter was blind

Please someone blind my eyes

The last time I saw you

It was about 5 a.

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You approached me in a strange car

Finally kissed me

Then did wave goodbye

Before you disappeared

Sometimes I ache, babe

I ain’t hard enough to stand

Days they just drown me

Coming back from work

Having sour breakfast

Seasick from your chest