Alba s touto skladbou:
All At Once,
The other day, when we were walking by
The graveyard near the house, you asked me
If I thought we would ever die...
And if life and love both fade
Predictably, we've made ourselves
A kind of predictable life
And so I pictured us like corpses, lying
Side by side in pieces, in some
Dark and lonely blood under a bow
We looked so silly there, all decomposed
Half turned to dust, in tattered clothes
But we probably look just as silly now
Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you
What is going to happen next
Or how to be...
But you have no idea about me, do you?
And it left me to wonder if people
Will ever know each other
By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark
'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me
I must seem strange to you
We're like two actors playing our parts
Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did
Here's the part where I get so mad, I
Tell you I can't forget the past
You get so quiet now, and you seem somehow
Like a lost and lonely child
And you just hope that the moment wont last.
Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you
What is going to happen next
Or how to be...
But you have no idea about me...
You have no idea about me, do you?
So there's always a way around
There's something tying our feet to the ground
A moment passed, we hate how it sounds
And it seems a little less profound
Like we're all going the same way down
Yeah, we're all going the same way down
I'm just trying to write it all down....
'Cause I write songs, and you write letters
We are tied like two, in tethers
And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep
At night in bed, together
And you wake in tears sometimes
I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
They say "Darling, will you be kind?
Will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old?"
And then the letters all pass through my head
With the words that I was told
About the fading flesh of life and love
The failures of the bold
I can list each crippling fear
Like I'm reading from a will
And I'll defy everyone and love you still
I will carry you with me up every hill
If you die before I die
I'll carve your name out of the sky
I'll fall asleep with your memory
And dream of where you lie...
It maybe better to move on
And to let life just carry on.
I may be wrong...but still, I'll try...
'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die...
Yeah, it's better to love whether you win or lose or die...
It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die...
