Ajoutez Celui

Add One

Ajoutez un baiser pour chaque genou supprimé qui est allé inobservé

It's not my knee that hurts...

 

Ajoutez deux pour tous les temps les baisers ne sont jamais venus
Kisses, though grand, are not enough to bring me through the pain

 

Ajoutez trois pour toutes les plaisanteries échangées par des années

The years go by so quickly now I've nothing more to gain

 

Ajoutez quatre pour tous les temps que nous avons partagés moins un pour quand je ne me suis pas soucié

Subtracting one from all I've lost is insignificant by far

 

Ajoutez cinq plus deux pour tous les temps je regrettais que je ne puisse pas guérir votre douleur

I suppose I could forgive the time we lost and start the math from here

 

Ajoutez encore un pour tous les temps que j'ai arrêtés pour marquer une pause parce que j'ai dû vous permettre d'apprendre

I didn't know what I had until I walked away

Author's Note

Sometimes no matter how much we love someone ... to them it feels like we're speaking a foreign language, and we respond the only way we know how. Although in the end we seem to always understand what it was they tried to say. Typical of adult children ... remembering through different eyes why their parents did what they did....back then.

line one:
Add one for every scratched knee that went unnoticed

line two:
add two for all the times those kisses never came

line three:
add three for all the pleasantries exchanged throughout the years

line four:
Add four for all times we shared less one for when I didn't care


line five:
Add five more plus two for all times I regretted that I could not cure your pain

line six:
Add one plus six more for all the times I had to pause because I had to let you learn

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

Stunningly powerful. This is heartbreakingly clear and all too typical I'm afraid. We should all ask ourselves how we would score. I know mine would be low.