Verse 1 I wore your name in Paris like a coat against the rain. You said we’ll always have this — then the city learned to break. I thought the guns had taken you. I learned to stand up straight. Victor needed someone who could still believe in fate. Verse 2 He is the hymn the frightened hum when midnight has no door. You are the smoke, the piano, the thing I can’t ignore. One man is a country. One man is a room. I keep choosing tomorrow and mourning the afternoon. Chorus If love were only honest, I would never leave this bar. If love were only duty, I would never come this far. I am the girl who stayed and the girl who got on the plane. Rick, I loved you in Paris. Victor, I love you in the rain. Verse 3 You look at me like I am still the last train out of France. He looks at me like I am how the occupied advance. I kiss you and I taste the street we ran down in the dark. I take his hand and feel the weight of every missing mark. Bridge Tell Sam to stop the song. I already know the tune. It starts in a café and it ends beneath a moon too thin to hide a woman who is loyal and untrue. I can save the world or save the night. I cannot save us two. Final chorus If love were only honest, I would never leave this bar. If love were only duty, I would never come this far. Put me on the plane, Rick. Don’t make me choose again. We’ll always have Paris. He’ll always have the end. Outro Here’s looking at you — from a window that won’t open. Here’s looking at him — from a life I keep on hoping. The letters say depart. My heart says stay. I do the noble thing and die a little on the way.
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