Barry White Heartbreak Ballads: When the Music Fades Away

[00:00:08][music] [music] My suitcase waits beside [singing] the doorway. [music] [music] Your robe is loosely tied. [singing] The dawn [music] train hasn't reached this city.

[00:00:38]Still goodbye [music] is in your eyes.

[00:00:47]You [music] say don't promise me forever just because [music] you have to go.

[00:01:00]So I [music] take the ticket from my pocket and [music] place the return inside [singing] your hand. [music] Keep the return ticket, baby.

[00:01:20]Fold it once and keep [music] it me.

[00:01:23][singing] Not as proof that time [music] stands still, but as the road that brings me here.

[00:01:39][music] The leaving half is mine to carry.

[00:01:46][music] The coming home is yours to hold.

[00:01:53][music] Keep the [singing] return. Take it, baby.

[00:02:01]Till these empty miles let go. [music] I won't tell you. Distance [music] is nothing.

[00:02:16]The lonely room can make [music] it real.

[00:02:22]There will be nights my voice arrives [music] late.

[00:02:28]Nights [singing] words can [music] cross the miles.

[00:02:37]But every morning I wake without [music] you.

[00:02:44]will know exactly what it means.

[00:02:50]I am not building life away [music] from you.

[00:02:58]I am only [music] passing through between.

[00:03:05][music] Keep the return [singing] ticket, baby.

[00:03:14]>> [music] >> Let it rest beside [singing] your bed.

[00:03:22]When [music] the hours begin to question all the tender [music] things we say, remember I did not leave [music] you.

[00:03:44]>> [music] >> with a promise made of it.

[00:03:48][music] I left the road back in your keeping and my reason to take it there. [music] The train may carry me [singing] away, [music] but [music] the return already [music and singing] bears your [music and singing] name.

[00:04:28][music] >> [music] [music] >> Come with me, baby.

[00:04:52][music] Let them keep the bright room, the silver glasses, [music] and all those eyes.

[00:05:01]I don't need the whole world to watch me love you.

[00:05:07]Tonight, I only need a smaller one. [music] [music] >> [music] >> The orchestra was dressed in midnight.

[00:05:35][music] Golden light moved through the room.

[00:05:41][singing] [music] Every stranger raised a [singing] glass [music] as though they understood me and you.

[00:05:53][singing] [music] >> [music] >> You wore your smile for every greeting.

[00:06:04][music] Turned with grace from face to face.

[00:06:12][music] But when your fingers [singing] found my [music] fingers, I knew we needed quieter [music] space.

[00:06:25]Give me a small world, baby.

[00:06:29]Just your hand inside my hand.

[00:06:33]Let the music reaches [music] softly from a [singing] room where others dance. Give me [music] a small world, baby.

[00:06:44]No applause and no [music] display.

[00:06:48]Only one slow step between us and the things [singing] we need to [music] say.

[00:07:03]We [music] left the ballroom through the side [singing] door. Found the terrace washed in blue. The city [music] carried [singing] on below us.

[00:07:14]I could only [music] look at you.

[00:07:17]>> No chandelier could make you brighter.

[00:07:20][music] No crowded room could make this small.

[00:07:25]You laid your [singing] head against my shoulder. [music] And the night forgot the door. [music] You see, baby, [music] love doesn't always need a grand [music] entrance.

[00:07:46]Sometimes it becomes most beautiful after the room grows distant and two [music] people stop performing.

[00:08:02]Give me a [music] small world baby where your whisper car is far. Where I don't have to share your [music and singing] beauty with a hund watching eyes. Let [music] the grand room keep its music. Let the city keep its lights. [music] All the world I need is turning in my arms.

[00:08:31]arms [music] with me tonight.

[00:08:36][music] >> One [music] slow dance.

[00:08:43]>> One slow dance.

[00:08:45]>> No one watching. [music] >> No one watching.

[00:08:51]>> Your cheek against mine.

[00:08:57]Let the whole world grow smaller till only love is left inside.

[00:09:08][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> The way to clear the tape. table [singing] near us. Turn [music] the chairs and dim the hall.

[00:09:54]Still you didn't check [music] the hour.

[00:09:57]Still I didn't mind at all. [music] We had passed the easy questions [music] where we lived and what we did.

[00:10:12]Then you asked what I [singing] had wanted. [music] Before life [music] decided it at the quiet [music] [singing] table, I heard my own voice change. [music] Not trying [singing] to sound certain, [music] not choosing what to say.

[00:10:41]At [music] the quiet [singing] table with the whole room nearly gone, [music] you listen past my answers to the man they [music] rested on.

[00:11:05]You told [music] me you [singing] had learned that kindness doesn't [music] always and allow.

[00:11:13]Sometimes it is giving someone time [music] to finish every [singing] doubt.

[00:11:24]I had spent [music] so many evenings making loneliness look [music] fine.

[00:11:32]You never tried to solve me. You just [singing] stayed and gave me time.

[00:11:39]At the [music] quiet table, nothing asked us to perform. No laughter for [music] the strangers.

[00:11:52]No practiced way to [music] charm [singing] at the quiet table.

[00:12:00]I forgot what I should [singing] say.

[00:12:05]And for once [music] being understood didn't make [singing] me turn away.

[00:12:14][music] [music] Oh, [singing] [music] they brought the [music] bill [singing] without us asking.

[00:12:49]Morning waited past the glass. You said we should [music] let them close now.

[00:12:57]Then you smiled.

[00:12:59]but didn't [music] stand.

[00:13:03]So I asked if you were [singing] hungry for another [music] hour somewhere.

[00:13:10]You said [singing] only if the next place [music] has a quiet table there.

[00:13:19][music and singing] A quiet table and someone [music] who can hear [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You wrote When [singing] rain comes to the city, stand [music] beside your window. After 12, [music] I'll be somewhere [singing] underneath [music] it, doing nothing but the same. [music] Tonight the rooftops [music] shine like silver.

[00:14:56][music] The hour turns without a [singing] sound.

[00:15:04]I place my hand [singing] against [music] the cold glass [music] and let the rain come down. [singing] Rain [music] on both windows.

[00:15:22]One sky above two rooms.

[00:15:25]Your hand upon the [music] glass there.

[00:15:29]Mine reaching from this room.

[00:15:33]The miles have not grown smaller.

[00:15:36][music] I feel everyone tonight.

[00:15:40]But [music] rain on both our windows.

[00:15:43]Put your darkness next to mine.

[00:15:56]I can almost [music] see your [singing] curtains.

[00:16:04]That [music] small lamp beside the chair.

[00:16:08][music] The way you lean your head [singing] to listen. [music] When the weather fills the air, no letter could [music] replace your breathing. [singing] [music] No memory can hold me close.

[00:16:39]Still knowing you are [music] watching makes this room feel [singing] less alone. [music] Look at that rain, baby.

[00:16:53][music] It crossed every roof between us and found us at the same hour.

[00:17:05][music] Don't close the curtain yet.

[00:17:09]Rain on both windows. Let [music] it speak where we cannot.

[00:17:15]Let each drop repeat the promise.

[00:17:18][singing] That the distance has not [music] stopped. I won't call these miles an illusion. I won't say they do not [music and singing] ache.

[00:17:30]The rain on both our windows gives us one [music] night.

[00:17:37]distance can I take? [music] Keep your hand there a little longer.

[00:17:56]Mine [music] is waiting [singing] on the other [music and singing] side.

[00:18:05]Oh.

[00:18:15][music] [music] [music] Come closer, baby.

[00:18:39]I heard you say you would leave all this behind for me, but I didn't fall in love [music] with a woman who was waiting to disappear.

[00:18:56][music] The city taught your heart how to move.

[00:19:01][music] Keep every street that knows your name.

[00:19:07]I'll bring my love to where you are.

[00:19:20][music] You stand barefoot by the curtain, [music] one earring resting in your hand.

[00:19:42][music] Far below the evening [music] traffic draws its ribbons through the air.

[00:19:54][singing] knew. [music] You say I could leave [singing] tomorrow, [music] find a quieter [singing] life with you.

[00:20:14][music] I hear love inside [singing] the offer.

[00:20:19]And a part of you [singing and music] I'd lose.

[00:20:26]Keep your city, baby. [music] Keep the light that made you shine.

[00:20:34]I would rather [music] cross the distance than ask your world to bow to mine. Keep your city, [music] baby. [singing] Let it windows hold your lies.

[00:20:49]I will learn each road that leads [music and singing] here. Till your word can welcome mine. [music] Your piano [music] waits beside the window.

[00:21:10]Your books lean where you left them last. [music] The doorman knows your morning footsteps.

[00:21:18]The florist knows [music] which blooms you ask.

[00:21:23]Every room contains [music and singing] a language.

[00:21:28]I have only just [music] begun.

[00:21:36]I don't want a love made smaller so my arms can hold it all.

[00:21:45]Let me love the life that shaped you, [music] not remove you from its walls. [music and singing] No, baby, don't pack [music] away.

[00:22:01]The woman I came here to love, let me learn her city. Let me earn my place in it.

[00:22:11]>> Keep your [music] city, baby.

[00:22:15]Keep the life that bears your name.

[00:22:19]Let [music] me come without possession and learn the rhythm of your days.

[00:22:25][music] Keep your city, baby.

[00:22:30]I won't dim what drew me near.

[00:22:34]If this love [singing] deserves tomorrow, it [music] will grow around [singing] you here.

[00:22:50][music] Keep your city, keep yourself and leave [singing] one window lit for me.

[00:23:06]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Don't move because the moment expects you Do [music] move because you mean it.

[00:23:39][music] I can wait long enough to [music] know the difference.

[00:23:49]Love me slow enough to know me. [music] Not just close [music] enough to feel.

[00:24:06][music] Let each answer reach the surface.

[00:24:14][music] Let each quiet thing be real.

[00:24:23][music] You don't know the [singing] room rhythm. [music] You don't know my hands a sign.

[00:24:37][music] If you lean a little nearer, [singing] let [music] the movement still be mine.

[00:24:46][music] Not to take but to receive it.

[00:24:54]not to turn your breath to [music] proof.

[00:24:59]I would rather lose the [singing] moment than misunderstand [music] the truth. [singing] Love me slow enough to know me. [music] Past the wanting, past the heat.

[00:25:16][music] Let desire learn your language [singing] before [music] it speaks for what you need.

[00:25:26]Love me slow enough to know me. [music] Nothing here must be arranged.

[00:25:36]If you choose [music and singing] another distance, I will honor [singing] what you change.

[00:25:48][music] There [music] is courage in your caution.

[00:25:57]There is beauty in [music] restraint.

[00:26:02]Every pause [singing] becomes a doorway. When no one [music] is made to wait, you [music] can stop without explaining.

[00:26:16]You can [music] stay without a vow.

[00:26:21][music] What I want is not possession, only honesty. [music] right now. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Love me slow enough to [music] know me.

[00:26:59]Slow enough to still be [music] free.

[00:27:05]Let the closeness come [singing] from choosing, not from what [music] the night might [singing] be. No need to [music] hurry toward an [singing] answer. No need to promise [music] where this goes.

[00:27:25]Come as near as truth allows us.

[00:27:35]That is close enough [music] [singing] to know.

[00:27:44][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> You loved me first [music] in the way [singing] you listened.

[00:28:23]I began with something harmless.

[00:28:30]Then the harder truth came [music] through.

[00:28:36][music] You never reached to finish what was difficult [music] to say.

[00:28:50]You let the sentence find its ending.

[00:28:57]Let the [music] pause remain a pause.

[00:29:04][music] You didn't turn my hurt to wisdom or explain what it was for. [music] You love me first [music] in the way you listen.

[00:29:21]Not waiting for your turn.

[00:29:25][music] Not searching for a cure.

[00:29:28]You stayed beside the [music] question.

[00:29:33]when I could not [singing] make [music] it clear.

[00:29:40]Before you ever said you [music] love me, I could feel it [music] in the way you hurt.

[00:29:56][music] Others gave me easy [singing] answers.

[00:30:02]Told me [music and singing] time would make me whole.

[00:30:09]You left your coffee [music] there [singing] untouched and let me speak without [singing] control.

[00:30:23]When [music] my voice became uncertain, [music] you did not look away.

[00:30:37][music] You never made my weakness something I should rearrange. [singing] [music] You didn't carry it [singing] for me. You didn't tell me what to feel.

[00:30:58][music] You only made [singing] it safe enough for what I felt to become [music] real.

[00:31:09]You love me [singing] first in the [music] way you listen through the words I chose.

[00:31:19]and all the [music] words I lost.

[00:31:23]You gave my truth no deadline, no [music] condition to be heard. [music] Before my heart could trust the promise, it [music] trusted.

[00:31:44]The way you heard [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Don't love me only where the music helps. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> The final dances leave the floor.

[00:32:42][music] The room [music] grows [singing] larger as they go.

[00:32:54]A waiter [music] gathers empty glasses.

[00:33:00]Someone [music] folds the evening closed.

[00:33:08]Your hand is resting [music] in [singing] my hand still though the rhythm has [singing and music] withdrawn.

[00:33:21][music] And I wonder what will hold us when the beautiful [music and singing] is gone.

[00:33:35]Love me [music and singing] after the music.

[00:33:41]When the room is only [music] a room.

[00:33:49][music] When no strings [singing] rise beneath us [music] and no soft light tells [singing] us what to do.

[00:34:01][music] Love me after the music when the ordinary [singing] starts.

[00:34:16][music] I don't need [singing] another perfect evening.

[00:34:23][music] I need tenderness [singing] without the art.

[00:34:33][music] Will you hear me in [singing] the morning when my [music] voice has lost its charm?

[00:34:42]Will I hold you through the [music] silence without asking what [singing] went wrong?

[00:34:49]Can we [music] keep the grace between us when the day [singing] is plain and long?

[00:34:56]Can the kindness survive the moment that [music] inspire the song? [singing] Listen, baby.

[00:35:11]>> [music] >> A beautiful night can make [music] almost anything feel like love.

[00:35:21]But when the [music] room grows quiet, that is when love has to know its [music] own name.

[00:35:32]Love me after the music.

[00:35:38]When there's nothing left to hide.

[00:35:44][music] When the doors are open to the morning [music] and the world comes back outside.

[00:36:00]love me after the music. [music] Not because the night was sweet, [music] but because we learned to stay gentle [music] when there was no song beneath our feet.

[00:36:27]>> [music] >> The music gave us this evening.

[00:36:34]What [music] comes after belongs to us?

[00:36:41][music] [music] [music] Don't love me only.

[00:37:05]Where the music helps. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> The pianist found our [singing] old beginning. [music] Two soft cords [singing] beneath the room.

[00:37:46][music] You smiled before the phrase had settled [music] like your hands still knew the tune.

[00:38:03]We [music] didn't move the way [singing] we used to.

[00:38:09][music] We didn't need to prove we could.

[00:38:15][music] Your fingers rested close to mine.

[00:38:23]And all the [music] years [singing] between us unerstood.

[00:38:30]We were [music and singing] never at the end.

[00:38:36][music] Only past the easy [singing] words.

[00:38:44]Love had [music] finished with the opening [singing] and [music] begun its second verse.

[00:38:59][music] Less of thunder, more of knowing, [music] less to promise, more to learn.

[00:39:10][music] Same two hearts but deeper music in the [music] second verse.

[00:39:31]Once we [music] dance to be remembered.

[00:39:34][singing] [music] Now we sway because we're home.

[00:39:46]You know where my silence [music] gathers.

[00:39:52]I know when to leave it alone.

[00:39:59][music] What we lost was not the feeling.

[00:40:07][music] only you's [singing] impatient pace.

[00:40:15]Now the song [music] has room for mercy [music] and the truths we learn to face.

[00:40:28]Listen, baby. [music] The first verse was beautiful.

[00:40:34][music] But it didn't know what it would cost to stay.

[00:40:41][music] This one does.

[00:40:44]>> We were [singing] never [music] at the ending.

[00:40:48]>> We were never at the ending.

[00:40:52]>> We were learning how to last. [singing] Learning how to [music] last.

[00:40:59]>> Love is not the old refrain.

[00:41:02]It was what we wrote [music] beyond [singing] the past.

[00:41:10]Let the first verse keep its beauty.

[00:41:16]I would never take it back.

[00:41:24]>> [music] >> But the part I want beside me is the part [music] we're singing now.

[00:41:38]Don't [music] play it [singing] from the beginning.

[00:41:44][music] We're already where the [music] meaning starts.

[00:41:56]>> [music] [music] >> Come here, baby.

[00:42:08][music] You don't have to carry the whole day into this room.

[00:42:14][music] Set it down.

[00:42:20]A man doesn't lose his strength when he opens [music] his arms.

[00:42:28]Sometimes strength is [music] knowing exactly how gentle to be.

[00:42:37][music] You came home with evening on [singing] your shoulders, hair [music] still pinned against the day.

[00:42:53][music] You gave [singing] me that familiar smile that [music] tries to hide the weight.

[00:43:09]>> [music] >> I took your coat and closed the curtains.

[00:43:17][music] Let the silence slow.

[00:43:23][music] You have been strong for everybody.

[00:43:28][music and singing] Tonight you can [singing] let it [music] go.

[00:43:39]Let [singing] me love you [music] with a soft strength.

[00:43:47]No thunder in my voice, [music] no iron in my hands. Let me hold you without asking [music] you to rise. [singing] You don't have to [music] shine for me, baby.

[00:44:09]Just close your eyes. [music] >> [music] >> I was taught [singing] a man stood tall tallest [music] when he never showed the strength.

[00:44:36]As though [music] love grew more deserving when it learned to hide [music] its pain. [singing] But these [music] hands were made for more than lifting burdens from [music] the ground.

[00:44:58]They were made to touch you gently [singing] when the [music] world has worn you down.

[00:45:12]Rest here, baby. [music] >> I don't need to fix the sorrow or explain [music] what [singing] brought it through.

[00:45:31]I only need to stay beside [singing] you [music] till you're breathing.

[00:45:42]Feels like [music] you.

[00:45:46]Let me love you. Let me love you with a softer strength. [music] Steady enough to shelter, tender enough to bend.

[00:46:02][music] Let the [singing] world admire.

[00:46:05]It's made of iron. [screaming] I would rather be the [music] arms you trust.

[00:46:15]When every heart [music] bends, sleep now, baby. [music] The strongest part of me [music] has nothing left to prove.

[00:46:38][music] >> [music] [music] >> All day [music] people ask for the version of me that has an answer.

[00:47:10]The steady voice, [music] the easy laugh.

[00:47:16]By the time I get to you, [music] I don't have much left to perform.

[00:47:24][music] And somehow that is when you know me best.

[00:47:31][music] I know how to [singing] carry conversation.

[00:47:38][music] Keep a tight room from coming down.

[00:47:45][music] Make a hard week sound amusing.

[00:47:51][music] Turn a worry into something small.

[00:47:57]But you hear the breath before [music] the laughter.

[00:48:04]See me loosen when the door clicks [music] shut.

[00:48:11]You don't ask me to keep the evening going. [music] You know when enough [music] has been enough with you. [music] No [singing] need to shine.

[00:48:32]No need to turn [music] the rough parts into gold.

[00:48:37]I can say [music] I don't know and [music] leave the silence whole with [music] you.

[00:48:53]No need to shine.

[00:48:56]I can come [music] in tired and still be seen.

[00:49:03]You don't [music] love the [singing] man I show the room.

[00:49:08][music] You love the one who leaves with me.

[00:49:14][music] I can drop my keys beside the [music] doorway.

[00:49:23]Leave the jacket folded wrong.

[00:49:27][music] tell you that the day got underneath me without making it a [singing] song.

[00:49:38][music] You don't rush to raise my spirits.

[00:49:48]Don't confuse [music] affection with repair.

[00:49:55]You [music] just make a little room beside you.

[00:50:01]and let me arrive there. [music] No answer, no performance, [music] just your knee against mine.

[00:50:18][music] And the strange release of not improving the moment [music] with you.

[00:50:34]No need [music] to shine.

[00:50:38]No need to be remarkable tonight.

[00:50:43]I [music] can bring the parts that don't persuade.

[00:50:48]The doubts that [music] never learn to sound polite [music] with you.

[00:50:59]No need to shine.

[00:51:02][music] Let the world keep asking for the rest.

[00:51:08]You don't love me [music] for the room I hold.

[00:51:15]You love the man [music] who needs to rest.

[00:51:27][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Their coats [music] are gone from the hallway.

[00:52:03]Their laughter thins beyond the door.

[00:52:06][music] You gather glasses [music] without looking.

[00:52:17]I [music] fold a napkin once more.

[00:52:24]All evening [music] we made it look easy.

[00:52:31]You touched [music] my arm and someone stared.

[00:52:38]We gave them every sign [singing] of closeness [music] except the kind [singing] we needed here [music] after the guests.

[00:52:55]Don't ask me if [music] the night went well.

[00:53:02]We wore our love so well [music] for them.

[00:53:09]I nearly lost the way [music] it felt after the guests.

[00:53:20]Let the [music] good manners come undone.

[00:53:27]I don't want praise for how [singing] we look.

[00:53:33]I want to know [music] what [singing] we've become.

[00:53:42][music] Someone call us [singing] made [music] for each other.

[00:53:52]You [music] smiled and reached [singing] to clear a plate.

[00:54:00]I filled their [music] glasses, [singing] changed the subject.

[00:54:06]Both of us [music] performed our grace.

[00:54:13]Now, [music] no one needs [singing] another story.

[00:54:18]No one needs us looking fine. The room [music and singing] has nothing left to witness.

[00:54:27]There are only [music] two of us now. [music] Leave the dishes for the morning.

[00:54:42][singing] Let the [music] silence lose its job.

[00:54:54]If you're angry, [music and singing] let me hear it. If you're tired, say you are.

[00:55:01]Don't protect the way [singing] they see us. [music] They are gone and we are not [music] after the guest.

[00:55:21]Say the sentence. We [music] kept down [singing] every time the door swung open.

[00:55:34]Every time we heard a [music] sound after the guests.

[00:55:42]I don't leave us looking home.

[00:55:48]If there is still enough us to find, it [music] starts when no one's watching.

[00:56:00][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> M [music] at 4:50 I turn the to your lower.

[00:56:46]Set the chair back [music and singing] where I always do all week long. [music] We live in broken pieces.

[00:57:01]A hurried note, a [music] call [singing] that doesn't get through.

[00:57:09]But Sunday gives us room to finish sentences, [music] to say what [singing] tired voices leave behind.

[00:57:24]I know [music] the small breath [singing] before you answer.

[00:57:31]You know the [music] silence before I say I'm fine.

[00:57:38]Monday [music] at 5, the line comes [singing] alive.

[00:57:47]Two [music] cities lose their distance for the length [singing] of your hello.

[00:57:53]Sunday [music] at 5. No promise made for sure.

[00:58:01]Just the hour we keep [music] choosing to say what the weak won't hold. [music] This week the clock [music] moved past the hour. 503 510 then 17. [music] I [music] told myself a late train meant nothing.

[00:58:37]Still [music] the room grew louder [singing] around me.

[00:58:44][music] Then your number lit the table.

[00:58:48]You said I'm sorry the train ran [music] slow and one [singing] ordinary explanation brought the distance [music] back to side.

[00:59:00]We never called it a tradition. [music] We only kept our [singing] word until now became [music] the place where neither one went unheard.

[00:59:15][singing] Day and the line comes alive.

[00:59:24]You tell me where the [singing] week has [music] worn you. I tell you where it wor me thin [singing] Sunday [music] at 5. No future guarantee.

[00:59:38][music] Just two people [singing] giving distance less authority each [music] week at five.

[00:59:54]Your voice [music] arrives [singing] and for a while.

[01:00:06][music] So do you.

[01:00:19][music] [music] Come here, baby.

[01:00:37]Don't turn that mirror away.

[01:00:40][music] I know it doesn't show the girl you remember, [music] but I'm not standing here looking for yesterday.

[01:00:53]I'm looking at the woman every yesterday [music] was leading me to.

[01:01:04]>> [music] >> Silver rests among your dark hair.

[01:01:11][singing] Time [music] has touched the corners of your eyes.

[01:01:23]You trace each line as though it carried [singing] [music] something beauty [singing] should disguise.

[01:01:34][music] Then you ask if I [music] remember how you [music] looked when we first met.

[01:01:50]Oh, I remember baby. [music] But I have never loved you [singing] more than this.

[01:02:02][music] The mirror changed and so did [music] we.

[01:02:10]It shows the years but not what they mean.

[01:02:16][music] It cannot see the night you held me.

[01:02:23]When my [singing] strength [music] had nearly gone, the mirror [music] changed, baby.

[01:02:37]But my love [music] kept growing on.

[01:02:49][music] That glass remembers only faces.

[01:02:57][music] It never saw what courage cost.

[01:03:03]Never [music] watched you keep this house together [music] through the seasons we had lost.

[01:03:19][music] Every line belongs to living.

[01:03:26]Every silver thread [music] was earned.

[01:03:32]You are not fading from the woman [music] for whom my whole heart still burns.

[01:03:45]Listen to me.

[01:03:48]I don't love you in spite of time.

[01:03:55]I love you with all the time [music] inside you.

[01:04:03]The mirror changed and let it tell the [music] truth.

[01:04:10]Time has touched the woman I love and made her beauty deeper, [music and singing] too. Let the glass remember yesterday. I will hold what stands before me. You [music] are not the girl I once desired.

[01:04:30]You are the woman. [singing] I still choose.

[01:04:42][singing and music] Leave the mirror where it is.

[01:04:49]>> [music] >> Come closer, baby.

[01:04:54][music] Let me show you what it cannot see. [music] >> [music] >> I moved your chair once, [music] turned it toward the window, thinking [music] the room might feel different.

[01:05:41]By morning I had [music] placed it back.

[01:05:49]Some things do not ask to be remembered.

[01:05:55]They simply keep their [music] place.

[01:06:03]Your cup [music] no longer marks [singing] the table.

[01:06:10]No shaw eyes [music] folded on the arm.

[01:06:17]Still the [music] floorboards bend around [singing] it [music] like the room remembers warmth.

[01:06:32]I [music] don't speak as though you [singing] answer.

[01:06:38]I don't ask [music] the past to stay.

[01:06:45][music] But every time I cross the doorway, all the silence leans [singing] your way.

[01:06:57]>> [music] >> The chair is empty, but the room [music] still needs your way.

[01:07:12]Every morning finds the [music] same space no one else [music] has learned to take.

[01:07:29]The chair is [music] empty.

[01:07:34]I know what that absence means.

[01:07:41]Still the [music] love that filled this house keeps its shape in everything. [singing] >> [music] >> I have learned to set one [singing] place now. [music] Learned one key can sound too loud.

[01:08:15][music] Learned how evening fills a doorway [singing] when [music] no second step comes down.

[01:08:23]Oh, [music] still I keep the chair beside [music] me.

[01:08:34]Not because you might come through, [music] but because a life one shed leaves [music] the room arranged by two.

[01:08:55][singing] The [music] chair is empty and the room still leads [music] your [singing] way.

[01:09:09]Not from grief refusing mourning.

[01:09:13]Not from fear of letting change [singing] the change.

[01:09:27]>> [music] >> But I will not call love gone.

[01:09:35][music] Someone can leave the table [music] and the tenderness live on.

[01:09:48][music] [music] >> [music] >> I moved your chair once.

[01:10:08][music] [music] Leave the letters [singing] on the table.

[01:10:22]We already know [music] what they became.

[01:10:36]The ink has [music] faded at the edges.

[01:10:43]The ribbon lost its [music] shade of blue.

[01:10:49]An old dance card bears my [music and singing] handwriting.

[01:10:54]The first night I belong to you.

[01:11:01]You ask [music] me which of these to carry, which small relics [music] time should keep.

[01:11:15]I look beyond [singing and music] the paper to the love that [music] settled deep.

[01:11:29]We kept the pause before forgiveness, [singing] [music] the courage to return, the names we spoke in private, and the truths we had [music and singing] to learn.

[01:11:44]We kept the hand across the silence. The chair drawn closer through the years.

[01:11:49][music] Not every night was made of [singing] music. Still [music] we stayed.

[01:11:57]When music disappeared. [singing] [music] Everything we kept could never [music] fit inside this box.

[01:12:10]It lives in how you reach [music] for me before the final lamp is off.

[01:12:17]Everything [music] we kept is written deeper than the years.

[01:12:24]The tenderness [music] that changed our hands. [singing] The love that outlived [music] fear.

[01:12:46]>> [music] [music] >> Let the paper [singing] rest behind us.

[01:13:02]Let the faded ribbon [music] [singing] sleep.

[01:13:08]Nothing on this table is the [music] finest thing we keep.

[01:13:20]Turn your face toward me slowly.

[01:13:26]Let me see what time has done.

[01:13:33][music] You took two separate lives, baby, and taught them how to move as one. [music] Everything we kept is standing here tonight.

[01:13:52]Every [music] time we chose each other after being [singing] less than right, everything we kept still moves in how we [music] breathe.

[01:14:07]The years may take the keepsakes, but they cannot take the [music] life we made in [singing] one another.

[01:14:20]Close the [music] box.

[01:14:28]Take my hand. [singing] Nothing [music] worth keeping was ever left inside.

[01:14:46]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Morning found us at the same small table.

[01:15:27]Coats across the backs [music] of borrowed [singing] chairs.

[01:15:34]No soft light left to flatter the evening. [music] Just coffee cooling slowly between us there.

[01:15:49]You rub the [music] sleep from one tired eye and said [music] you talk too much when you [singing] get nervous.

[01:16:04]I liked you more for saying [music] it plainly, for letting silence [music] do its share. [singing] You are better [music] in daylight with nothing arranged [music] to make you shine.

[01:16:29]No music leading on [music] the moment.

[01:16:36]No borrowed mystery in [music] your eyes.

[01:16:44]The [music] dark may have [singing] introduced us, but morning [music and singing] made the meaning clear.

[01:16:59]I didn't [music] want the night repeated. [singing] I wanted [music] you still sitting here.

[01:17:14]You told [music] me why you leave some rooms [singing] early.

[01:17:20]How being [music] noticed can wear a [singing] person thin.

[01:17:29]You didn't [music] smooth the edges [singing] of your story or turn [music] each loss into a lesson learned.

[01:17:44]The way to raise the blinds behind [music] us. The street began [singing] its ordinary sound. You asked if I was getting tired.

[01:17:58]I [music] said, "Not of this.

[01:18:02]Not now."

[01:18:06]Nothing cinematic happened.

[01:18:09][music] No sun sign.

[01:18:13]Oh, [music] [singing] perfect line.

[01:18:20]You left, reached for the colder cup and asked me [music] what I had [singing] planned.

[01:18:31]I looked at you [music] and understood.

[01:18:38]I wanted [singing] morning [music] in those plans.

[01:18:45]You were better [singing] in daylight when the room had nothing [music] left to hide.

[01:18:57]No shadows [music] doing half the [singing] work.

[01:19:05]No midnight pulling [music] us too close. [singing] The [music] night may have introduced us, but [music and singing] morning gave me something true.

[01:19:28]I didn't want [music and singing] the night repeated.

[01:19:34]I [music] wanted breakfast then [singing] the day [music] then more of you.

[01:19:54][music] >> [music] [music] >> I thought the last [singing] goodbye had taken every road [singing] from me.

[01:20:28]>> [music] >> Then you [singing] came gently [music] asking nothing [music] of the past.

[01:20:46]Her let [music] us sleep inside the cedar.

[01:20:53]I have never moved them [music and singing] far.

[01:21:00]You never touched them like a rival [music] or asked me to forget her [singing] arms.

[01:21:14]The first [music and singing] time you reached across the table, I withdrew [music] before I knew.

[01:21:27][music] Not because [singing] your hand felt wrong, but because [music and singing] it felt so warm and new.

[01:21:42]Love [music] after goodbye doesn't [music] ask the past to leave.

[01:21:54]It doesn't [music] steal a single memory [music] or less what we grieve.

[01:22:07]Love after [music and singing] goodbye.

[01:22:12]comes softly without demand. [music] And one day the hand [music] that learned to tremble learns to hold [music] another hand.

[01:22:36]You never asked to [music] be compared with someone time had taken home.

[01:22:43]You love the man that sorrow altered.

[01:22:46][music] Not the man I was before.

[01:22:51]You let a name [singing] remain unhidden.

[01:22:54][music] You let silence have its place.

[01:22:58]And slowly life returned its [music] color without removing any trace. [music] Listen baby, loving you does not betray the life I had.

[01:23:22]You are the life still here [music] before me.

[01:23:29]And I'm finally >> brave enough to answer.

[01:23:36]>> Love [music] after goodbye doesn't close the older years. [music] It keeps the names that made [singing] us and makes [music] room beyond the tears.

[01:23:57]She [music] remains in what she gave me.

[01:24:00]>> You are here >> and you are [music] real.

[01:24:05]>> Love after goodbye >> is not forgetting [music] >> is learning how [singing] to live with all our [music] fears.

[01:24:21]>> I did not leave her behind.

[01:24:25]I only let you walk beside [music] me.

[01:24:41][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> two. [music] Pillows keep their careful distance.

[01:25:28][music] On the bed we chose as one.

[01:25:35]Your faces [music] turn toward the curtains, [singing] mine towards [music] that can't be undone.

[01:25:51]The clock [music] has no opinion.

[01:25:56]The darkness [music] takes no side.

[01:26:01]Still pride can make a whole cold [music] country out of inches [music] in the night.

[01:26:14]Separate [singing] pills, one [music] sheet holding both eyes.

[01:26:22]Pride [music] can make a mile of inches when neither heart [music] will move its [music and singing] feet, separate pillows.

[01:26:43]I won't let the dark decide. [music] You don't have to cross this distance.

[01:26:53]I was wrong.

[01:26:57]I'll cross it [music] tonight.

[01:27:06][music] I hear the change inside your breathing.

[01:27:11]>> [music] >> I know that you are wakeful too.

[01:27:17]Morning [singing] may make us [music] more polite, but it cannot make the wrong [singing] words true.

[01:27:27]I used your [music] fear to guard my own.

[01:27:31]Made your tenderness defend.

[01:27:35]No argument is [music] worth the moment.

[01:27:39]Love forgets which side it's on.

[01:27:46][music] I don't need your surrender.

[01:27:48][singing] I don't [music] need the final word. I need to own the hurt I gave you before another [music and singing] thing is heard. Let the questions wait for daylight. We can [music] face what still remains. But I will not make you my enemy, [music] just a shelter, my own pain. [singing] >> Separate [music] pillows, let them be the only two.

[01:28:30]Not two lives beneath one [music] ceiling. Not too hard afraid to move.

[01:28:37]>> Separate [music] pillows. [singing] >> I slide mine across the space. [music] Then your fingers find my shoulder. And the darkness [singing] [music] loses its place.

[01:29:00][music] We still have [singing] words from morning.

[01:29:06][music] Tonight we turn and face.

[01:29:15][music] Say that word again, [music] baby.

[01:29:39][music] The one your mother used when she called you home. [music] [music] I don't need every meaning tonight.

[01:29:57]I just want to know the sound [music] that held you [music] before I ever did.

[01:30:09][music] When you spoke to your mother [singing] softly, [music] your whole face changed in [singing] a way.

[01:30:24]I had [music] never seen beside [singing] me, though I'd known you day by day.

[01:30:34]There was music [music] in the [singing] meaning.

[01:30:39]I could feel [music] but could not name.

[01:30:44]And I wanted [singing] more than translation.

[01:30:49]I wanted [music] where it came.

[01:30:54]Love me in your language where the oldest meanings live. [music] Not just words for one and longing. Teach me how your heart learn to give. [singing] Love me in your language. [music] Open one more room to me.

[01:31:10]I don't [music] only want to hear. I love you.

[01:31:16]I want the world [singing] that gave those words their meaning.

[01:31:23][music] [music] Tell me what you call the evening [singing] from the steps outside [music] your home.

[01:31:43]What word meant? Stay a little. [music] What word meant?

[01:31:50]You're not alone.

[01:31:53][music] I will stumble. You can guide me.

[01:31:58]Let me earn each [music] sound with care.

[01:32:03]Every phrase I learn [music] beside you is another way to meet you. There.

[01:32:12]Love me in your language. Let your hidden [music] music through. Teach me every tender meaning that the years have carried into you. Love me [music] in your language. Say my name the way you do when no careful explanation stands [music] between your heart and truth.

[01:32:39]Say my [music] name again, baby.

[01:32:45]in your language. [music] Let it learn [music] how to come home.

[01:32:58][music] [music] [music]