Sondre Lerche - Guarantee That I’d Be Loved (live with KORK)

Recorded live at NRK TV Aksjonen, October 23, 2022. Taken from the album Avatars Of Love: https://ingrv.es/avatars-of-love-album Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and everywhere, I'm always @sondrelerche. More info at www.sondrelerche.com Lyrics: He once was a friend of mine who needed me all the time How far would I be willing to go to pull him back from the edge to try to put him at ease or talk him off the ledge I had to keep him alive I did whatever he pleased So maybe that would guarantee that I’d be loved We both fell in love on stage Still teens, no longer underage How far would I be willing to go to feel the warmth of her bed, to feel a part of her home When she was trying to bloom I only felt in the way Our kind of sweetness was doomed But had I stayed I would be guaranteed good love She seemed inapproachable, so proud, so inconsolable How far would I be willing to go to bring our creation to life, to live up to our dreams, and cut myself down to size We came apart at the seams But I would never dare say I thought it guaranteed that I could not be saved I longed for her long before our paths crossed an open door How far would I be willing to go for us to both reinvent One day I just couldn’t tell her heartbeats from my own And I thought to myself, I’ve gone and done it again She was the greatest love that I had ever known Turns out it wasn’t enough I longed to live in the dream of everything I could be, and she still echoed a world I thought I wanted to flee And though she always guaranteed that I’d be loved I let it all go I turned it all down There was nothing to discuss Although I took all her time trying to give up on us Give up the greatest guarantee that I’d be loved