Vladimir, my friend Between Two Borders

Verse 1

Vladimir

You called me from the bus stop

Half a country in your voice

I could hear the wires humming

Both of us had no real choice

Pre-Chorus

You said the winters here are long

I said I know

You said the sea forgets your name

I said I know

Chorus

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Vladimir my friend

Nothing's ever really planned

We were born between two borders

We were raised on borrowed songs

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Verse 2

Your mother packed the photographs

Your father packed the doubt

You took the train at seventeen

And never figured out

How to say goodbye to all of us

Without the leaving counting as a loss

Pre-Chorus

And I still keep your letter

Folded in a drawer

You wrote we'll meet in summer

But summer came and went and more

Chorus

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Vladimir my friend

Nothing's ever really planned

We were born between two borders

We were raised on borrowed songs

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Bridge

Every city looks the same from a window

Every road runs somewhere I don't know

I don't need you back I need you happy

I don't need the map I need the road

Chorus

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Vladimir my friend

Nothing's ever really planned

We were born between two borders

We were raised on borrowed songs

Vladimir my friend

I need you to understand

Outro

Vladimir

Vladimir

I need you to understand