who can say if i've been changed for the better..

every time i see you, i regret letting you go

even though i know it was the right thing-

we're not right for each other.

maybe if i'd never moved to shanghai,

if i'd never known that life,

if i'd never met those lives,

i could've been happy with you-

you could've been enough.

but then,

maybe i wouldn't have been enough for you

because shanghai was what made me-

all of this, shanghai wasn't just where it happened,

it was what did it, well, jesus in shanghai.

and the fact of the matter is,

i did move to shanghai

and i fell in love with that city

and i fell in love with jesus in that city

and i met the most amazing people in that city

and somewhere between the green taxis and blue taxis,

the trodden cabbage leaves and billowing laundry,

the old men's toothless grins and bared bellies,

the 2 kuai 葱油饼 and the 55 kuai moon river bbq burgers,

i found myself-

and nothing would ever be the same.

..but, because i knew you, i have been changed for good.