[Verse 1] Lidewijn came to Bogotá For fieldwork was the tale she told A sabbatical she called it A summer far away from home She studied minds and studied people With careful eyes and patient hands But underneath the notes she carried A question she could not understand [Pre-Chorus] Life is easy when no one asks you When will you finish, where belong? When all your friends call drifting freedom And bohemian dreams seem strong [Chorus] Between the healer and the hurting Between the truth and what we hide She crossed a line she never noticed And found herself on the other side Between the healer and the hurting Between the answer and the lie She came to study broken people And found the mirror in their eyes [Verse 2] Five thousand pesos for an hour Two euros paid by Carlson’s hand She was not yet a psychologist But he was not a man who cared He drank away the old attraction The charm that once had won the room But in the wreckage of the evening She saw a soul beneath the gloom [Pre-Chorus] With Erika she made a wager Who would first undo the man? But whiskey stole the easy victory And kindness changed the little plan [Chorus] Between the healer and the hurting Between the truth and what we hide She crossed a line she never noticed And found herself on the other side Between the healer and the hurting Between the answer and the lie She came to study broken people And found the mirror in their eyes [Bridge] He was her patient, she was learning No license signed her name in ink The ethics lived in shades of grayness Much deeper than she dared to think It was not only some old wager It was not only passing time The questions written in his silence Were slowly becoming hers to find [Verse 3] She remembered why she wanted The life she left so far behind Bogotá had closed its chapter And Antwerp called her back in time The city gave her what she needed Not what she came to find that day A stranger’s wounds became a lesson A reason not to run away [Pre-Chorus] Not licensed yet, the lines were blurred now The rules were harder than before It was not only fascination Her heart had entered through the door [Chorus] Between the healer and the hurting Between the truth and what we hide She crossed a line she never noticed And found herself on the other side Between the healer and the hurting Between the answer and the lie She came to study broken people And found the woman in her eyes [Outro] Last day in Bogotá’s morning From his bed until the gate A final kiss before the leaving A perfect ending to a fate She came to study broken people She left with something of her own A chapter closed in distant sunlight A different girl returning home
