Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

Music: Romance sans paroles. By Gabriel Faure. Ampico live recording by Gabriel Faure at Kunst der Fuge.

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Your heart broke when I said I had to leave you To serve our country somewhere far away. But every day tells me how much I love you, And how I'll mend it once I'm home to stay. For life is but a dream, and we the dreamers, Making what we will of what we are. When gates clang shut, we are our own redeemers, As love leaves for us a door ajar. So dream with me these empty months of sorrow As we find ways to be together still. No longing can be brighter than tomorrow, Nor dream less certain than our strength of will.