She came along down in Quezaltenango April 11th '99 I'd been driven by my worried mind Through these strange lands towards Something I couldn't quite define
Her Spanish eyes full of sorrow Yet whole being so divine Oh, that night, that night I felt free and her appearance felt like a sign
The second she was to leave I felt the earth tremble, stars assemble And the shimmering sky fall crashing down And I heard somebody speak With my own voice Asking for some light for a cigarette Of a special northern kind
I mean, how could I have been so blind?
Every single minute was ablaze with our fire That burned through the night rushing by We were one, oh and she was destined to become The Love, Love of my life
I wanted her along So I went for my guitar and played a love song And I tried and I tried to convince her to follow But she said "No, If you gotta leave, you're gonna leave all alone"
I could never ever leave You made my earth tremble My insurmountable walls come crashing down She told me not to speak
And without a word she put flowers in her hair And like a waft of air
She took her love elsewhere Oh, my Love! All I see in every woman All I see in every man A conspiracy to shatter our "stars-written-plan"
Together, Forever I will catch our stars and wake their shine Together, Forever Gonna find you and make you mine
We never met again The way it was meant to be Oh no, nor did we ever see The fulfillment of our destiny
And I can't find a place To stand, to sit, to crawl to 'Cause your spell under which I surely fell Did never leave me girl, never left me alone
Now, I'm trying to live without your love In this hazy flow The wasted years are passing by in an endless row
If these are the days to exhaust my faith in us I won't give in I'm hanging by this thread We're lovers in my head Till the graveyard is our bed