‘Bésame Mucho’ - fragments from my lyrics journal
Unfinished ‘Bésame Mucho’ practice take - my Spanish is mostly vibes at this point:
Don’t look at me like that
Caught in your dark brown eyes,
deep as the bottom of the night,
a small light trembles
as if it knows something we don’t
Your fingers trace my cheek,
barely touching,
shaking softlyl
ike our bodies knew
before we did,
like you’re trying
not to love me
Where are we meant to go?
Don’t touch my loneliness
Don’t find the softness
I hide from the world
Don’t be gentle
and make me want to cry
Leave me alone
Don’t love me
Because I know
I won’t be the same
when you leave
Because I know
you’re only passing through
Then take me away
Unmake me slowly,
until there’s nothing left
in me that knows to run
Ruin me gently
until I forget where I end
and you begin
Hold me like you’ll never leave me
until my body
mistakes you for home
Don’t let the morning
know where we are
Let me fall asleep
against your chest,
your heartbeat
warm beneath my ear
Safe enough
to dream I can stay
Let me sleep
a little longer,
before the light comes in,
before I remember
you were never mine to keep
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