Love Doesn’t Need Ten Thousand Lifetimes

[Verse 1]
Moonlight by the window
Frost along the hall
You keep all the old days
Folded in your heart

That bowl of forgetting
Feels too cold, too light
How could it erase
The glow still in your eyes

Red beans by the letters
Incense fading slow
Tea has lost its warmth now
But your sorrow still won’t go

You are scared to turn back
Scared to look behind
As if all this deep love
Would be left with nowhere to hide

[Pre-Chorus]
Some loves are not meant
To live on pain alone
Some names don’t need forever
To still be carried on

[Chorus]
Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need longing
Carved into your heart

You once loved so deeply
You once loved so true
That little light you carry
Is already lasting through

Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need heaven
To answer back to you

If he once lit a fire
In your darkest night
Letting go
Will not erase
That light

[Verse 2]
There you stand at midnight
Wind across your clothes
Holding to a broken dream
Refusing to let go

But this human road is
Longer than it seems
How can you keep walking
Only carrying old grief

I know it isn’t pride now
I know it isn’t vain
You are only scared that love
Will fade to something plain

Scared that when spring comes back
And flowers start to bloom
You and him will only be
A line the past once knew

[Pre-Chorus 2]
The deepest kind of love
Is not self-destruction
If two hearts once found each other
Why spend life in sorrow’s river

[Chorus]
Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need longing
Carved into your heart

You once loved so deeply
You once loved so true
That little light you carry
Is already lasting through

Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need heaven
To answer back to you

If he once lit a fire
In your darkest night
Letting go
Will not erase
That light

[Bridge]
If there is another lifetime
If you meet again someday
You don’t have to wear
All this frost upon your face

If he knows you, he will know you
Not by all your hidden scars
But by the kindness in your eyes
By the softness of your heart

And if one day
You finally let the moonlight go
And place his name back gently
Somewhere safe inside your soul

That is not betrayal
That is not goodbye
It is only giving love
Back its truest form in time

[Final Chorus]
Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need the long night
To mourn for you

You once loved so deeply
You once loved so true
And this small flame within you
No one else can hide from view

Love doesn’t need
Ten thousand lifetimes
It doesn’t need to trap you
Inside your own heart too

If one day your longing
Turns into moonlight
Let it fall
So softly
On you

[Outro]
You don’t have to drink
That bowl of forgetting
You don’t have to carry pain
Till your hair turns white

Just remember
Someone once
Walked into your life
And there was a love
That did not need forever
To still be called
Bright


[Verse 1]
月落西窗
霜侵舊廊
你把往事
收進心上
那一碗湯
太薄太涼
怎能洗去
你眼底的光
紅豆還在
舊信紙旁
香灰未冷
茶也微涼
你怕回頭
你怕回望
此生深情
再無處安放

[Pre-Chorus]
有些深情
不靠痛生長
有些名字
不必不忘
也還難忘

[Chorus]
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必把相思
刻在心上
你曾真心
愛過一場
這一點光
已夠漫長
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必向天
討個回響
若他曾照亮
你黑夜微光
放手
也不會熄滅
那道光

[Verse 2]
你立橋頭
風滿衣裳
風滿衣裳
寧守殘夢
不肯相忘
可這人間
路太漫長
若只背舊傷
怎過風霜
我知你啊
不是倔強
只是怕愛
淡成尋常
怕到最後
花又開放
你與他
只剩半行

[Pre-Chorus 2]
真正深情
不是自我埋葬
若真相照
何必餘生
盡作寒江

[Chorus]
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必把相思
刻在心上
你曾真心
愛過一場
這一點光
已夠漫長
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必向天
討個回響
若他曾照亮
你黑夜微光
放手
也不會熄滅
那道光

[Bridge]
若有來生
若真重逢
你也不必
滿身風霜
他若認得你
未必憑舊傷
只憑你眼底
那點溫良
若有一日
你肯放下月光
把名字
輕輕收進心房
那不是辜負
不是相忘
只是把愛
還它本來模樣

[Final Chorus]
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必讓長夜
替你守喪
你曾真心
愛過一場
這一點火
誰也不能藏
愛不必
萬世不忘
不必困住
自己心房
若思念最後
化作月光
就讓它
安靜落在
你心上

[Outro]
你不必飲
那一碗湯
也不必守痛
到鬢雪成霜
只要記得
曾有一人
來過你生命
一場
一場
曾有一愛
不必永恆
也自有
天長