In the market where we first met
Paper lanterns overhead
Your smile at the fruit stand
Made my heart skip ahead
Walking close but not too near
Watching you from day to day
Never knew the words to say
How you made me feel this way
Every evening waiting there
Hoping just to see your face
La la la mm mm (oh-whoa)
Aah-ah-ah-ah
Tonight the lanterns shine so bright
But you're no longer here
I trace the paths we used to walk
Year after year
Through the market alone
Sweet soup stall where we would stay
Sharing stories laugh and play
Now the steam rises empty
Into nights cold and gray
All these memories we made
Fade like incense in the air
Still I find you everywhere
In the spaces that we shared
Yiu yiu yah yah yiu (floating away)
Mm mm lai lai mm (memories fade)
Tables where we sat for tea
Now hold strangers not just me
Fortune teller's corner booth
Where you first said I love you
Time flows like the river near
Taking all we knew away
Yet my heart chooses to stay
In that market yesterday
Tonight the lanterns shine so bright
But you're no longer here
I trace the paths we used to walk
Year after year
Through the market alone
(Through the market alone)