Why? Songtext

von Martin Guerre

ARNAUD:
Bertrande, Bertrande
Let me touch your face
Who knows if I will ever see you again

BERTRANDE:
I know you will
Our days will return
Closer than ever
And the waiting
Will end

ARNAUD:
If Martin should decide
I will die for our love

BERTRANDE:
He cannot have changed so much since we were young

ARNAUD:
But your life is with him

BERTRANDE:
My life's with you

ARNAUD:
With Martin Guerre

BERTRANDE:
I'll have your child

ARNAUD:
You are his wife

BERTRANDE:
Please don't betray me, Arnaud
You're the man that I love, I have only one heart
And that love is the child we made together
We must pay for we lied, but no judge can decide
Who a woman should love and love forever

ARNAUD & BERTRANDE:
The day has come
That we have to fight alone against the world
The day will come
When we'll tell our children how the fight was won

BERTRANDE:
Listen, Martin, you must understand

MARTIN (to Arnaud):
You took my name, you took my wife

ARNAUD:
No, I came here, Martin
To tell Bertrande the truth
You gave your life for mine
I saw you die
And the words that you whispered
Were to tell here you were sorry

MARTIN:
Why did it have to be you?
After all that we lived through
Thought I knew you as a friend

ARNAUD:
Why did you tell me her name?
Who can say why it happens
Where it leads to the end?

BERTRANDE:
Why...

MARTIN (to Bertrande):
How I needed to see you

BERTRANDE:
How can you talk of need?

MARTIN:
All that I dreamed of...

BERTRANDE:
All the years that I wasted
While I waited just for you
He ?

MARTIN:
What did he tell you?

BERTRANDE:
Never lied to me once

MARTIN:
That I wanted to try again

BERTRANDE:
He would never deceive me
He has told me all he knew

MARTIN (to Arnaud):
You were someone T trusted...
Why ?

ARNAUD (to Martin):
We fell in love

BERTRANDE:
They all called him Martin

ARNAUD:
They loves me so

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
All that I dreamed of since childhood
Soon, there was no turning back

MARTIN (to Arnaud):
But you knew how I felt

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
And the lie we were living

MARTIN:
How I yearned

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
And forgiving

MARTIN:
For my live

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
Brought us love

MARTIN:
How I wanted a home

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
Why ?

MARTIN:
How I dreamed of a life of peace

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
Does it happen like this?

MARTIN:
How I longed for a chance to find

BERTRANDE & ARNAUD:
That there's

MARTIN, ARNAUD & BERTRANDE:
Somewhere and someone where I could find
Passion and a lover and gentle friend

MARTIN:
You find just one friend in a lifetime
On your word
I can always depend
Where would I be
Without you as a friend?

My friend, your life is in my hands now
And yet you're the luckiest of men
The life I left belongs to you now
But still, I'll save you once again

So it seems
We have come to the end
I'll live my life
Without you as a friend...