Sing exactly as written. Natural Turkish-accented English is welcome — do not flatten the vowels. [VERSE 1] On the balcony, at dinner rice wine in my hand the cool touch of the warm night your eyes looking back, so you, so you [VERSE 2] On the terrace, only smoke in the air the fish are waiting for October I miss you while you're right beside me a message slips from a fake fortune cookie [CHORUS 1] Can you make love while you're crying? When we make love, can we cry together? [VERSE 3] The sidewalk walking inside the night where, like a staircase, dream and real blur together when your hair touches my skin, lights come on in undiscovered cities the paper says: change [VERSE 4] You're on the couch, I'm on the balcony over the water looking at the future we could make my arms holding you in my lap you grow lighter the more we share your fingers on my naked body between sleeping and falling in love I wander in the wave of your hair [CHORUS 2 — inverted] When we make love, can we cry together? Can you make love while you're crying? [VERSE 5] Your eyes say I love you while your lips stay silent your lips, kissing, are lovelier than speaking your eyes cloud over Naomi, Naima, Leyla the line of time dissolves [BRIDGE] Life sets you thinking music behind us, me beside you, sake in your hand for a moment you touch the woman you might want to be some other day we look, the moment the distance between us is gone only then does a person see on the terrace, with the feeling that makes one out of two you're in my arms, womanly, childlike, mine your tear falls from my eye I look at us through your eyes [PRE-FRACTURE] We dream by the water's edge to discover together to change a life even if it burns us in the choosing then you go [FRACTURE] In my hand a vase of a life, made of glass glass everywhere I'm not the same nor is anything nor are you [CHORUS 3 — eroded] Can you make love while you're crying? (When we made love, could we have cried together?) [CODA] I'll name it another day [OUTRO] All the nights and days can't even rewind it one of the hardest moments of my life what you believed was real in pieces, piece by piece I haven't broken like this in a long time I say it, talking to the emptiness I hadn't felt like this in so long
