[Verse 1] I met you there by chance again, in the café from years ago, the same old table by the window, though the world had changed somehow. You wore a coat just like you used to,and the smile I knew so well,for a moment we were young again, though so many winters fell. [Chorus] Just one more time, look at me the way you did then,as if all those years had never passed,all the goodbyes had never happened. Just one more time, don’t ask what time has taken from us, let the old record play tonight, like the world still belonged to us. [Verse 2] You asked me, “How has life been treating you?” I couldn’t find the words to say, how can you fit a lifetime into a moment, into one day? There was a ring upon your finger, there was silver in my hair,but something in the way you looked at me said our younger hearts were there. [Chorus] Just one more time, look at me the way you did then, as if all those years had never passed, all the goodbyes had never happened. Just one more time, don’t ask what time has taken from us, let the old record play tonight, like the world still belonged to us. [Bridge] And then somebody played our old song, the one we used to know, I reached my hand across the table: “Would you dance before you go?” Outside, the rain fell softly, the streets disappeared in the mist, and for three short minutes together, we were seventeen again. [Verse 3] There were no promises between us, no “stay with me,” no “come back home,” for both of us had lives to return to, and different roads to walk alone. At the door you turned and whispered, “It was good to see you again.” And I stayed there by the window, watching you disappear in the rain. [Final Chorus] Just one more time, the clock turned backwards for a while, just one more time, you were that girl with the same old smile. Then the old record stopped playing, and dawn took the lights from the town, all that remained was a memory of a love that never quite died down. [Outro] Maybe somewhere, years from now,fate will cross our roads again… And this time, without a question, we’ll dance just one more time.
