i don t want to leave you but the wind is howling loud and flowers die off in this kind of cold i don t want to leave you but what i want hardly matters now i d ask one favour of you please grow old we swore that we would stand alone together and i hate to make you a liar but i saw this coming all along i fear there s nowhere we can go from here hard to believe that sometimes what feels right is wrong you say it s tearing you to bits but you don t know the half of it i m crumbling like paper in the rain i don t want to leave you but the wind is howling loud and flowers die off in this kind of cold i don t want to leave you but what i want hardly matters now i d ask one favour of you please grow old it s a welcome change for once to have someone to rely on at least until it all comes tumbling down you don t understand all the fuss but there s bigger things than both of us if all this leaves you breathless then i d rather you keep breathing you say it s tearing you in two but you should know this tears me too i m burning like dry fields set alight your reckless days and sleepless nights i watched them as your satellite we danced around each other like nothing could come between the only part i ve come to hate it came with an expiry date the things we want forever couldn t last the century i don t want to leave you why can t i just stay in your arms just a moment longer what s the harm i don t want to leave you but what i want hardly matters now i d ask one favour of you so if it s at all in your power please grow old please grow old i don t want to leave you but what i want hardly matters now i d ask one favour of you