How can you expect to be my friend,(1)
If for you I'd give up my life?
If I confuse your smile
for flirtation if you look at me.
Reason and flesh, difficult mix,
water and thirst, serious problem.
How could you expect to be my friend
If for you I'd disappear,(2)
If I confuse your caresses
For flirtations if you spoil me.
passion and law, difficult mix,
water and thirst, serious problem…
When you are thirsty,
but water isn't close by,
when you need to drink, (3)
but water isn't close by.
What to do, only you know,
Keep our distance,
renounce what's natural,
and let water run its course.
How will you expect to be my friend. (4)
when you receive this letter,
between the lines lies a message,
"How could you be my friend?"
When you are thirsty,
but water isn't close by,
when you need to drink, (3)
but water isn't close by.