Lyrics: Tumi Hrannar Pálmason
Music: Tumi Hrannar Pálmason
These days I’m frail,
I’ve begged but to no avail,
I’m beat and I’m bent and I’m maimed.
What I would ask now
Is for you to be right here somehow,
But I am left helpless all the same.
So still the road goes on.
A silent passing of spring
brings a summer with intent to cling
to what I know best, and hurts the worst.
So when autumn drops by
my grip’s so tight my mind cannot fly,
so in winter my thoughts are dispersed.
And still the road goes on.
And what I wouldn’t give to be in your position.
Still the road goes on.
The simplest of wants face the devil’s jurisdiction.
And still the road goes on
What is a man
but the hope that his life will and can
be joyful and pleasant as it may?
So when happiness fails,
its wheels seldom can find back its rails,
and the ground gladly ravages its prey.
Love tears me within,
yet love I can’t avert.
Love asks for too much
when love begs me to change.
Still love begs me to change,
so love forces the change.