Them's the breaks

Them's the breaks

Them's the breaks...A...E...Yo! Yo!1
Why do I remember the days when we basked in a sea of sunny love?
We did not fake our feelings back then. It was like a fairytale.
It seemed we had all our life ahead of us,
filled with dreams come true.
And you sat next to me with caressing hands
and whispered "I'll always be with you".
And for some reason I believed you, though I knew everything passes.
But loving eyes are oblivious to the truth2;
lured by happiness, they are afraid to lose it,
to stop feeling it after too many bumps on the road3
True4, I was sitting alone on the edge of hope,
dreaming that everything could be like before.
But the horrible reality cooled my blood.
And, as it seems, I forgot forever
what love is, what love means.

Sometimes it happens
that love comes around again.
But the flame dies out eventually
and the blood freezes in your veins. (x2)

Them's the breaks, love dies,
even though it looks like it beckons again, beckons.
And you can't understand where all the warmth went.
Cold in the eyes, wind in the words...
Fear of the pain of ancient losses.
The doors of common love are slammed shut.
And when fire is gone from the heart,
each day becomes meaningless.
You stopped shivering in deceitful winds,
laughing at your faith in the flower of tender words.
The voice seems sweet and dear,
but why is there no love? The answer is simple:

Sometimes it happens
that love comes around again.
But the flame dies out eventually
and the blood freezes in your veins. (x2)

• 1. I have no clue about "A E yo yo"
• 2. lit. "don't see what (really) happens"
• 3. not too sure about this line. Lit "in the bumps on the bottom". Possibly a reference to Maxim Gorky's famous book" at the bottom"
• 4. lit. "I don't argue (about that)"