More songs by Brandi Carlile
Description
The city, where even angels once fell, smells of burnt time. The air is saturated with that very weariness when you don't know whether it's winter or just someone's pause between lives. It seems as if the night has forgotten everything: the snow, the faces, and why it is necessary to remember at all. Only somewhere inside, an old mechanism clicks quietly - a memory that won't let go, but asks to be released.
And in this strange world of surviving feelings, every step sounds like a farewell. Warm, soft, but final. When the sky suddenly becomes a mirror, not a refuge, and you finally understand: sometimes love is also letting go. Even if your voice trembles and your hands still reach for the past.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I don't remember the timeline
Just December and the eastern skyline
It was just my time to go
It wasn't even a cold night
Disappointed in the northern nights
I always thought there'd be snow
400 people on a broken wheel
When the plane touched down in a concrete minefield
I guess we all made it out okay
Following the streets to a sliver of blue
You can lose the sky and it can lose you too
But you get a little lost to find your way
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go
I don't remember the faces
Just the anger and the haunted places
So alive I could taste it on the rain
Even the roaches come from somewhere
Leaving a stain where the angels fell
In the city where no one knows your name
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go
Ooh, oh-oh
Hold their eyes, make sure they know
Stand your ground but see the soul
Beneath the pain and broken home
With every drop of rain and bone
Square your shoulders, turn to stone
Slowly shake your head for no
When you find yourself alone
Retrace your steps and come back home
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
I want you to go (I know you wanted me to)
And I want you to go (go)
I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go
English translation
I don't remember the timeline
Just December and the eastern skyline
It was just my time to go
It wasn't even a cold night
Disappointed in the northern nights
I always thought there'd be snow
400 people on a broken wheel
When the plane touched down in a concrete minefield
I guess we all made it out okay
Following the streets to a sliver of blue
You can lose the sky and it can lose you too
But you get a little lost to find your way
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go
I don't remember the faces
Just the anger and the haunted places
So alive I could taste it on the rain
Even the roaches come from somewhere
Leaving a stain where the angels fell
In the city where no one knows your name
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go
Ooh, oh-oh
Hold their eyes, make sure they know
Stand your ground but see the soul
Beneath the pain and broken home
With every drop of rain and bone
Square your shoulders, turn to stone
Slowly shake your head for no
When you find yourself alone
Retrace your steps and come back home
I'm living in a war with time
I could still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn't know the things I know
I'm standing in an open door
None of it was overrated
And I'm never gonna wanna let you go
But I want you to go
I want you to go (I know you wanted me to)
And I want you to go (go)
I want you to go
Don't even ask me, just go