If You Have To Go

Purple sky, off you go

Take your head from my shoulder

If you have to go, if you have to go

You're the sand and the sky

I'm the sea at your feet

I'll hold the stars up on my own

If you have to go

We watched love's sun fall and fuse

Our whole life at our shoes

Autumn, winter, summer, spring

And then, I was unfrozen

I've been waiting, clocks and boats

Everywhere, here and nowhere

Everything I needed to know

I've met you, now I know

At night I let myself roam

I push the doors and leave them open

You stay, we laugh, we build a home

Then, in a crash, it closes

Time and place are cold and cruel

A painful ache in how we're moving

I have to stay, you leave tomorrow

And I can let you go