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Description
There is a strange art - to want and not to possess. Like holding water in your palms: it seems close, it seems yours, but as soon as you close your fingers, it all slips away. Here, feelings are not loud, without shouting and drama. Just a slight confusion of two adults who seem to know how the world works, but still stumble upon their own contradictions. Love is there, freedom is needed, but the formula doesn't add up.
It all sounds like the morning after a long conversation: quiet, a little awkward, but real. When you realise that you can't ‘tie’ anyone down, even if you really want to. And that makes you feel a little sad, a little light - as if you're smiling at something that didn't work out, but was still beautiful.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Probably should've known by now.
You don't have to read my mind 'cause I'll tell it to your face.
If you wanna leave, you can, or you could put your little heart in me now.
Ain't this how it's supposed to be?
I want you here, but I don't know how not to tie you down.
We could take it one day at a time, or we could spend it all right now runnin' into the ground.
How much have we left unsaid, and is it better that way?
If I were to change my mind now, would that even be allowed?
I want you here, but I don't know how to tie you down.
-I don't wanna hold you back. -I don't wanna hold you back.
-Something feels wrong about it. -Something feels wrong about it.
But I'm feelin' all that luck. Oh, I want you so bad.
I feel happy and sad.
-Feel happy and sad. -It's been makin' me mad.
-It's been makin' me mad.
-I know that one of these days, we're gonna -look back and- -We're gonna look back and-
I still want you here, but I won't know how.
I still want you here, but I won't know how to tie you down.
English translation
Probably should've known by now.
You don't have to read my mind 'cause I'll tell it to your face.
If you wanna leave, you can, or you could put your little heart in me now.
Ain't this how it's supposed to be?
I want you here, but I don't know how not to tie you down.
We could take it one day at a time, or we could spend it all right now runnin' into the ground.
How much have we left unsaid, and is it better that way?
If I were to change my mind now, would that even be allowed?
I want you here, but I don't know how to tie you down.
-I don't wanna hold you back. -I don't wanna hold you back.
-Something feels wrong about it. -Something feels wrong about it.
But I'm feelin' all that luck. Oh, I want you so bad.
I feel happy and sad.
-Feel happy and sad. -It's been makin' me mad.
-It's been makin' me mad.
-I know that one of these days, we're gonna -look back and- -We're gonna look back and-
I still want you here, but I won't know how.
I still want you here, but I won't know how to tie you down.