I sometimes half-serious-half-jokingly refer to this song as the world’s first honest love song. Because no matter what we want to promise one another, and how strongly we are feeling deep sensations of love, lust, affection, empathy, passion, arousal, truth, connection and commitment, we can honestly not say with absolute certainty that we know that we are going to stay together forever. And that bittersweet insight, that what we have is fragile and may perhaps be lost with time, is perhaps what makes it so powerful to begin with.

 

It Could Go Either Way

Stay with me, it could go either way

Stay with me, let’s not throw us away

I can say; there is no guarantee

but stay with me and let us have this day

If I ever made it on my own,

see I never knew you all alone,

Stay with me, tip the balance our way

 

Stay with me, it could go either way

Stay with me, let’s not throw us away

I can say; there is no guarantee

but stay with me and let us have today

If I ever made it on my own,

see I never knew you all alone,

Stay with me, tip the balance our way

 

Stay with me, it could go either way

Stay with me, let’s not throw us away

I can say; there is no guarantee

but stay with me and let us have this day, either way

 

Stay with me, it may go straight to hell

But don’t leave, then we may never tell

Stay with me, it could go either way

Stay with me and let us have this day

If I ever made it on my own

see I never knew you all alone

Stay with me, tip the balance our way

 

”It could go either way” is a part of my debut album ”Darkness on the edge of ecstasy” out now on Sonar Kollektiv!