Song 96: Adventurous

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
The suitcase is half-packed
And the other half is faith
And the ticket says a city
I can't pronounce but I can taste
The way you taste a word in Vietnamese
That has no cousin in the French

The amygdala is filing a complaint
But the dopamine has overruled the court
And the cerebellum — which handles the balance —
Has decided that falling
Is just a form of transport

[Pre-Chorus]
Và tôi nói có trước khi biết câu hỏi
I said yes before I knew the question
Which is either the definition of adventure
Or the definition of a very specific
Kind of stupid
That only love survives

[Chorus]
L'amour aventureux, l'amour aventureux
The love that packs a bag before it packs a plan
L'amour aventureux, l'amour aventureux
One last ride with the only one who understands
That the map is not the territory
The itinerary is not the trip
The best thing we ever did together
Was get magnificently lost
And find each other in it

[Verse 2]
My grandmother crossed an ocean
With less luggage than I bring
To the corner shop on Tuesday
She carried a war in one hand
And a child in the other
And the adventure was: survive this
And she did
And here I am
Packing the wrong shoes for a city
I chose because the name
Sounded like a door


The hippocampus maps new places
Faster when the heart is open
The spatial memory writes in bold
When the body is in motion
And the best maps I own
Were drawn while running
For a train I should have missed
With a person I almost didn't kiss

[Chorus]
L'amour aventureux, l'amour aventureux
The love that packs a bag before it packs a plan
L'amour aventureux, l'amour aventureux
One last ride with the only one who understands
That the map is not the territory
The itinerary is not the trip
The best thing we ever did together
Was get magnificently lost
And find each other in it

[Bridge]
They say adventure is for the young
But the young don't know they're on one
Adventure is for the ones
Who've already been afraid
And bought the ticket anyway

The norepinephrine is honest
It says: this could go wrong
And the prefrontal cortex replies:
Yes — and?


And that "and" is the whole adventure
Two letters
A held breath
A train station
A yes

[Outro]
Một lần nữa — one more time