I Don't Belong

I don’t belong
that is my deepest pain
I stayed here long
but like the autumn rain
my tears flow
from my heart
where do I go?
whom do I know?
why did we part?
I don’t belong
I hated long good-byes
and now in my songs
I often cry
I think of you
my love, it’s true
you’re intense
you’re much too sad
don’t be so tense
some people said
I don’t belong
how much I long
for a tender kiss
it’s you I miss
it’s you I think of every night
I don’t belong, I don’t belong
and still I fight
to make it right
and reach your tender heart.


  January 3, 1988
--Alexander Shaumyan