ShowcaseBC — Pharis & Jason Romero

Love Song To An Introvert

Come sit by me here

I know it’s all right to ask

And we can talk of how it will be

Outside it’s gently raining

Inside the fires are burning

You’re quiet and you haven’t, haven’t much to say

I won’t worry if you come to me later

It’s the love in me that makes me want to know

When you’re tired, and your head is heavy

I say “don’t you want some time to be alone”

And life is so loud

With so many ways to colour

The things that you and I both know we need

It’s a picture of a moment

Oh, a record of singer who

Maybe needs to hum, maybe needs to hum this time around

I won’t worry if you come to me later

It’s the love in me that makes me want to know

When you’re tired, and your head is heavy

I say “don’t you want some time to be alone”

I love you for your quiet

Though I will keep on talking

And you will smile and nod like you do

And I won’t fall to pieces ‘cause everything has two sides

Sometimes on the inside, sometimes on the outside

Every side is beautiful

I won’t worry if you come to me later

It’s the love in me that makes me want to know

When you’re tired, and your head is heavy

I say “don’t you want some time to be alone”

Don’t you want some time to be alone

I Can’t Come Back

Man is best when he does not know
Of the richness at his feet
For then he cannot change it all
To what he doesn’t need

I went up on the mountain’s edge
And looked down on the land
A stranger to my own dear home
For years I’ve been abroad

And where I’ve gone, I’m loth to say
For most will hear it wrong
And think too poorly of this girl
For traveling on my own

Once I met a man from Spain
He wore a leather hat
And placed a feather in the band
To say he worried not

He treated all with an unkind heart
And abused my giving ways
So off I wandered over the sea
To find a quiet place

Then I met a man from the north
With a laugh and no true smile
Underneath was a cruel hand
So I left after a short while

How I missed my mother dear
My father and my land
But when I left it looked so green
And water filled the valleys

Now I’ve returned it’s dusty dry
The fields are burned and black
And where on earth could I find love
If the creatures can’t come back

And man is best when he does not know
Of the richness at his feet
For then he cannot change it all
To what he doesn’t need