Got to know your name

Once I had an asthmatic bike A static wind A cheerful cloud A wooden gun And a pair of pants With fake buttons, welded pockets And a bunch of doves under the skin Had one, too many questions Lingering in the air Beneath the wings of a bird Would take me far away To a distant world To a distant world We used to laugh Under the pouring rain Made everyone by the table sneeze from salt and pepper Threw sand against the wind In crowded places And with Mike's porcelain eye Would scare the shit out of ole' ladies On tram number 7 and 54 Was a time when watching paint drying Was a synonym of entertainment And when we're bored to death We would watch the girls through the fence And from time to time girls were bored as well So we would mess around with Mike's eye again Growing up was never planned Until it hit me that day, that very day by the fence The bird The thrill Would scare the butterflies Like my knees did when they got to know your name I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the oceans standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the oceans standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear A few years later Had the planets aligned dancing with you on the porch You were 16, I was 17 And the moon glowed under the smoke Of the rhythm The music Your smile And the ants beneath my shirt Your skirt I remember as if it was yesterday I remember the moment you, Without much thought Gave the kiss that would shake the world Off the shelf Life was an empty book to be written If there was ever something to be written But who cares when you live the moment as if there was no tomorrow And suddenly you wake up to the alarm clock of tomorrow, The day that was never supposed to reach you It reaches you! And you find someone else had written that book to completion Page after page The bike The cloud The doves under my skin The day I got to know your name I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the oceans standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the oceans standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear 40 years later am sitting with a nowhere leading sign Wearing a bulletproof vest against shooting stars And carry an empty suitcase full of unaccomplished dreams With no future inside the vanity bag With no stickers of I love Paris With no toothbrush accompanying me I arrived to the coast of the Cape of Good Hope Just too late Let me tell you I gave everything for something new I erased from the wind those moments lived I ran but couldn't reach I tried but couldn't reach Once I tried to hold on 'to something It just slipped through my fingers Tried to live in the moment 'Till I couldn't hold it Is it just you Is it just me Or should we blame the weather The day I got to know your name I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the ocean standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear I've seen the mountains come to me I've seen the oceans standing still I felt the moment freezing in my hands I felt your whisper in my ear