Her hair was as brown as the warm deep bark of the cherry trees
And her eyes, I was stunned by those bold brown eyes, looking at me
She had this almost overwhelming talent where she focused her
Attention right upon me, it was honestly a beautiful encounter
Just like everything and everyone I’d met here on the way
I’d spent the past five days in this new location exploring and soaring up high
To a point I’d forgotten how to reach, it’s been years since I felt this kind of peace, so free from the daily grind
The culture and adventure knocked me head right over heel
This unfamiliarity in a safe receptive field of exotic enchantment, just like her
It’s not the first time life had thrown me into such a dream
It happens fairly regularly but every time I seem to be
Within the reach of something grand it ends
Before I get the chance to place my hands upon it to begin with
So as she was staring at me, forefront in my mind the one thing I was wary of
Was whether it was right to share a tender moment with this girl who sweetly sat beside me at the bar
But it begs that everlasting question, what’s it gonna lead to?
Would a kiss be met with joy or would it ricochet and speed into
A compromising situation I’d end up regretting cause of the goddamn fact that I don’t live here
In the end I took it as another of those unrequited dreams
Cause this girl’s heart was way too sweet to break
And I say hey, I’ve found something good here, but then it comes and hits me
That I’m gonna have to go home
And I say hey, what hope do I have here, just give me a sign here
A sign I’m not alone
Well as I climbed aboard the plane for home I thought upon my week
And I was grateful for what came, despite the slight amount of grief
Cause it’s not every day you find a friend who comforts you and really makes you smile
And I’ll probably always wonder if she felt the same for me
And if we’d grown and flowered like that cherry blossom tree
Now it’s back to normal life
So today I was in a queue in a Sydney postal store
Waiting ever patiently, dreaming of the warmth of her embrace
If only everything had turned the way I’d planned inside my heart
When I noticed there right next to me this pile of little Lonely Planet dictionaries
And one was Japanese and so I picked it up
And the page it opened up on was the romance page
And there I read “aishite imasu” – which means “I love you”
And I say hey, I’ve found something good here, but then it comes and hits me
That I’m gonna have to go home
And I say hey, what hope do I have here, just give me a sign here
A sign I’m not alone
And I say hey, I’ve found something good here, but then it comes and hits me
That I’m gonna have to go, I’m gonna have to go, I’m gonna have to go home
What hope do I have here, just give me a sign here