Changing Your Name - Ellis Paul

I judged the distance

To where you ran your hand through your hair

You were startled for an instant, you said

«Take me home,» and I paid the fare

And you laughed the laugh of the innocent

As the cab cut a path in the street

As the world swept by with it’s violence

I thought of the shelter we’d find in the sheets…

In the sheets

I never asked you for nothing like changing your name

I believed we had something here, but nothing ever came

Were you thrown by the language, by words that we said

When I told you I loved you

Did it get in the way?

Get in the way?

You lit a candle

Then you poured me a glass of port wine

I pulled the oven handle

The air felt warm, the scent felt kind

And your kiss could heal like medicine

There ain’t nothing that it can’t overcome

But I could not lean on this evidence

For fear you’d take the cure and run

You would run…

Cause Love won’t stop to

Think about the consequences

Turns a fool to stumbling

Over people’s fences

And the moon cut a frown over windy town

But you smiled as you pulled down the shade

And we turned a corner onto holy ground

And got lost in the love we made, that we made…

Get in the way…