Crédits
INTERPRÉTATION
Melody Gardot
Chant
Philippe Powell
Piano
COMPOSITION ET PAROLES
Melody Gardot
Composition
Philippe Powell
Composition
PRODUCTION ET INGÉNIERIE
Melody Gardot
Production
Denis Caribaux
Ingénierie de mixage
Pierre Charles Biguet
Assistance d’ingénierie de prise de son
Andrew Walter
Assistance d’ingénierie de mastérisation
Simon Gibson
Ingénierie de mastérisation
Paroles
[Verse 1]
I could feel the comfort in your arms
The dwindling dying part of me
Refreshed
Aware
Awakened
Alive as if a flower
Unfolding in the dark
[Verse 2]
A bloom plucked from her branch
Merciless
Abandoned
Discovered
Opening there within your hands
As they ran from end to end
[Verse 3]
And of my merciless sadness
And of my ever-ruined veins
[Verse 4]
Beat by beat
Throbbing once more in remembrance
Of a long-forgotten dance
[Verse 5]
To dust off my valances
My balances
In my discretion
[Verse 6]
Your hands were my direction
And they led me to myself
There within your arms
I thought I can outlive myself
I can live forever
[Verse 7]
Eternally embraced
For the lines that make your face
Trace the shadows upon my brow
[Verse 8]
And now and then I see you
There inside my mind
In the deepest darkest part of me
It's great love that I find
[Verse 9]
For love in masses
Or love in drops
Fills my shallow pool
A dry and dying desert
A century of hurt
A body bound to fall to pieces
There within the dirt
[Verse 10]
Your love the only reason
That love's my only rule
As what love has in seasons
Aye, its treason is its jewel
[Verse 11]
I needed you in moments
Where I knew no sense of worth
Where tears would be the rain
Blood the soil
Body, earth
[Verse 12]
Sadness has become
The inner workings of the mechanism
That is my barely beating heart
[Verse 13]
A complied fracture of bones
Take the shape of my ribs
And sorrow, sorrow alone
The liquid formula of my swollen veins
[Verse 14]
I am alone in my loneliness
Not forgotten nor cast out
But chosen to be one who is both with
And then without
Written by: Melody Gardot, Philippe Baden Powell

