Lovers and Friends - The Communards

All night you’d lay asleep

Enfolded in my arms

Breathing slow and sweet

I never understood

How it would prove to be

Such a luxury to feel

Your hand, warm in my hand

Your kiss onmy cheek

Lovers and friends

Are all that matter

You’ll never know how much it

Came to mean to me

To have you by my side

In battles lost and won

And now I understand

These things can never be

Guaranteed

I wish I could recall

Each mundane tenderness

Remember every look, each word

Preserve every breath

Each kiss, each caress

Lovers and friends

Are all that matter

I never thought that I would

Watch you drowning

Far from any sea, on crumpled sheets

White sand in your eyes

Lovers and friends

Are all that matter

And now when all I have of you

Is a memory

I raise my hand to touch my cheek

Imprinted with your love