LOVE YOU ANYWAY

[VERSE 1] [Soft pulsing kick][Sub bass][Glassy synth][Intimate female vocal] We built a little world from borrowed time, You were yours, and I was mine. We chased the nights, we made them ours, I thought growing up meant holding on, I didn’t know some things move on. [VERSE 1 - MALE FRENCH] [Warm smoky male vocal][Close-mic][Answers, doesn’t repeat] On a construit un monde emprunté, Toi le tien, et moi le mien. On a couru les nuits sans fin, Je croyais que grandir, c’était tenir bon, Je ne savais pas que certaines choses s’en vont. [PRE-CHORUS] [Breathy harmonies][Call and response] We’d find the love, On trouvait l’amour, we’d lose the way, on perdait le chemin, Come back together, On revenait ensemble, break the same. pour tout casser encore. [CHORUS] [Duet][Wide harmonies, male third below][Hall reverb] We still love each other, On s’aime encore, We just don’t know how to stay. mais on ne sait plus rester. We keep reaching for forever, On tend la main vers toujours, Then watching it de-cay. Et on le regarde s’effacer. We can be each other’s people, Just not in the same way. So I’ll love you from a distance, And I’ll love you anyway. Je t’aimerai à distance, Et je t’aimerai quand même. [POST-CHORUS] [Chopped, braided vocals][Reversed vocals] Anyway… Quand même… anyway… quand même… [VERSE 2] [Rhythm more present] Now we’re friends with all the history, And the ghost of you sits beside me. If time could turn, if love could bend, Would we begin or just repeat again? [VERSE 2 - MALE FRENCH] Maintenant on est amis avec toute l’histoire, Et ton fantôme reste assis près de moi. Si le temps pouvait tourner, si l’amour pouvait plier, Recommencerait-on, ou tout répéter? [CHORUS 2] [Duet][Distant choir][Groove widens] We still love each other, On s’aime encore, We just don’t know how to stay. mais on ne sait plus rester. We keep reaching for forever, On tend la main vers toujours, Then watching it de-cay. Et on le regarde s’effacer. We can be each other’s people, Just not in the same way. So I’ll love you from a distance, And I’ll love you anyway. Je t’aimerai à distance, Et je t’aimerai quand même. [BREAKDOWN] [No kick, no percussion][Voice and deep drone only][Long reverb] I used to think that growing meant Becoming who I dreamed I’d be. Je croyais que grandir C’était devenir celui dont j’avais rêvé. You didn’t stop being beautiful. Tu n’as jamais cessé d’être belle. We just stopped being what each other needed. On a juste arrêté d’être ce dont l’autre avait besoin. [SILENCE] I don’t want another beginning if it ends the same. Je ne veux pas d’un autre commencement s’il finit pareil. [BUILD] [96→100 BPM][Rising slowly][Sub bass grows][Percussion returns] Take the years… Prends les années… Take the places we have been… Prends les endroits où on est allés… Nothing beautiful is wasted just because we couldn’t make it… Rien de beau n’est perdu juste parce qu’on n’a pas réussi… [FINAL CHORUS] [104 BPM][Full duet, equal mix][Octave doubles][Slow dance groove] We still love each other, and maybe that’s enough. On s’aime encore, et peut-être que ça suffit. Not to keep us together, but to make the leaving soft. Pas pour nous garder ensemble, mais pour rendre le départ plus doux. You were part of my becoming, I was part of yours somehow. Tu faisais partie de mon devenir, je faisais partie du tien, d’une certaine façon. [OUTRO] [100 BPM, strips back][Two voices fading into each other] Still becoming… Toujours en devenir… [Fade out]