The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain - Stacey Kent, Graham Harvey, John Parricelli

You say it’s the way

these passing years have treated you

That the weight of the dreams you once carried

has now defeated you

That our candlelit dinners will all just be reheated through

Our quarrels and disappointments

just get repeated, too

Well I’ve packed our bags,

I know I should have consulted you

But pretending to bargain

would have only insulted you

So do just as I say, we’ll go away today

The fire still burns whatever you may claim

Let’s be young again, if only for the weekend

Let’s be fools again, let’s fall in at the deep end

Let’s do once more

All those things we did before

The summer we crossed Europe in the rain

Remember that hotel, the crooked balcony door

From where we watched the market in the downpour?

Sharing warm baguettes, on sunny cathedral steps

Dancing the tango while waiting for our train

Let’s be young again, if only for the weekend

Let’s be fools again, let’s fall in at the deep end

Let’s do once more all those things we did before

The summer we crossed Europe in the rain