How can I hope to make you understand
Why I must travel to a distant land,
Far from the home I love.
Once, I was happily content to be
Close to the people who are close to me,
Who could see that a man would come
Who would change the course of my dreams?
Helpless now, I stand with him,
Watching older dreams grow dim.
Oh, what a melancholy choice this is,
Wanting home, wanting him.
Closing my heart to every hope but his,
There, where my heart has settled long ago,
Who could imagine I'd be wandering so
Far from the home I love.
Yet, there with my love, I'm home.