Songs Don't Turn Yellow
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| When I have something to say Lam It's not on paper Lam That I prefer to write my thoughts Rem But it's on my guitar sol7 With a few chords sol7 That I prefer to conjugate the verb to love do Because life goes away La7 Because the years pass La7 Because we're on earth for next to nothing Rem Everything we build crumbles Lam The sand slips through your hand mi7 Lam | Chorus: Songs don't turn yellow la7 Like photos in notebooks la7 rem Notes are like eternal perfumes sol7 do We forget everything, even the skin lam Of those we loved so much rem Their kisses fly away like swallows mi7 Lam |
| And when I have a heavy heart When so many people are missing When my arms can no longer hold It's not with words It's not with tears That with my heart I could speak to them When others don't care And have forgotten them Those whom I have never stopped loving I hope they will hear wherever they have gone My way of speaking to them | One day I will leave I will pack my suitcase For the country from which one never returns Nothing will remain Of the mad ventures Of the chimeras I have sometimes built But if the people I love Hum softly A few notes of my songs That's all I ask Before leaving for good That's all I ask Before leaving for good |