Lyrics We Met at The End of The Party - Anne Sofie von Otter, Brad Mehldau

We Met at The End of The Party

We met at the end of the party
When most of the drinks were dead
And all the glasses dirty:
«Have this that’s left,» you said
We walked through the last of summer
When shadows reached long and blue
Across days that were growing shorter:
You said: «There's autumn too.»
Always for you what’s finished
Is nothing, and what survives
Cancels the failed, the famished
As if we had fresh lives
From that night on, and just living
Could make me unaware
Of June, and the guests arriving
And I not there