If I can't keep it,nat least let me call it by name.nThat was called falling, this is called pain,nit's called love, what I'm losing.nI know love is a stranger,nI know that changes come,nI know love is a changer.nnI'm gonna go quietly,nyou dont have to tell me to.nJust let me lie a little longer next to you.nNot tryin' to bother you,nI'm just tryin' to breathe you in,nand then I will leave you therenwhere you are sleeping.nnSpeaking of loving you, I do.nI'm telling you stranger to stranger.nWhatever changes come to you,ni'm telling you changer to changer.nnWorn in or stolen, your shadow from me,nbut I hold its shape in my mind,nthe shape of your back when you turned it on me, one last time.nnAnd out in the waking world,nnobody understands exactly how light it is,nexactly how free I am.nOne minute I'm laughing, and the next one I'm lost.nI'm watching the birds fly by, watching the highways cross.nnSpeaking of loving you, I do.ntelling you stranger to stranger.nWhatever changes come to you,nI'm telling you changer to changer.nnIf I can't keep it,nat least let me call it by name.