More songs by Big Thief
Description
Composer: Bert Hillesheim
Lyricist: Bert Hillesheim
Lyrics and translation
Original
How could I have known in that moment what we'd turn into?
I was alone in that moment when I first met you.
You reminded me of the river with your eyes both green and blue.
You reminded me of everything beautiful and true.
Baby, I walked to the Eiffel Tower and I stood out in the rain.
It was some empty power
I could not explain.
As I stood along that river where the lovers wear their chain, it reminded me of everyone
I had ever tried to claim.
And they say time is the fourth dimension.
They say everything lives and dies.
But our love will live forever, though today we said goodbye.
How could I have known?
How could
I have known in that moment what we'd turn into?
I was alone in that moment when I first met you.
English translation
How could I have known in that moment what we'd turn into?
I was alone in that moment when I first met you.
You reminded me of the river with your eyes both green and blue.
You reminded me of everything beautiful and true.
Baby, I walked to the Eiffel Tower and I stood out in the rain.
It was some empty power
I could not explain.
As I stood along that river where the lovers wear their chain, it reminded me of everyone
I had ever tried to claim.
And they say time is the fourth dimension.
They say everything lives and dies.
But our love will live forever, though today we said goodbye.
How could I have known?
How could
I have known in that moment what we'd turn into?
I was alone in that moment when I first met you.