Khi Em Đã Ra Đi

(Phỏng tác từ bài ca: “Let Her Go”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA )

Tối dâng tràn mới biết đèn sắp tắt
Mơ nắng Hè khi tuyết thổi la đà
Mới biết thương lúc người yêu cách xa
Dằn vặt buồn khi chẳng còn đôi lứa

Như nhớ nhà khi không về được nữa
Vô định nhìn khắc khoải tận đáy ly
Mong níu lại tình chân buổi phân kỳ
Yêu đến chậm mà chia tay chốc lát !

Bàn tay mình sao chỉ gây đổ nát ?
Nhắm mắt lại là chỉ thấy em thôi
Cố không tin chuyện thật đã qua rồi
Để em nặng vai gầy tình đà lở

Mơ thấy em về tâm tư bỡ ngỡ   
Lòng hỏi lòng nay sao quá cô đơn
Lỡ làm em uất hận nuốt dỗi hờn
Nay mới thấm mình yêu em quá đỗi

Nhìn trần nhà suốt bao đêm nông nỗi
Tay chẳng buồn quờ quạng níu chân không
Phòng vắng tanh đơn chiếc lạnh như đồng
Anh đã để em đi không trở lại !....

Thái Huy Long

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"Let Her Go"

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies

But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much
And you dived too deep

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go (oh, oh, ooh, oh no)
And you let her go (oh, oh, ooh, oh no)
Will you let her go?

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go