I want to rip your lips off in my mouth
And even in my greatest moment
Doubt the line between deceit and right now
What if where I’m trying to get right where I’ve always been?
I once saw a sunset, so vivid and warm
That I swore it was perfect
I once had a lover, I’m not sure if I’ll recover
But I’m sure it was worth it
Then last night in the car, falling raindrops looked like stars
Of some incalculable speed
Then later my friends said “Good to see you again”
This is a home to me
So I wrote a song and called it “The Love of My Life”
It says don’t be gone long, and now it sings me to sleep every night
I never learned a lesson staring at my own reflection
But sometimes it seems useful
So I loosen my heartstrings, with high hopes of starting
To find something truthful
Cynicism isn’t wisdom
It’s a lazy way to say you’ve been burned
You’d think, if anything, you’d be less sure
After all that you’ve learned
Sometimes I try to write a song
And all the words just come out wrong
But if I never picked the pen up
Held inside and never shared
It still might seem so eloquent
It wasn’t what I really meant
Well, at least you got the notion
That I care
And a song well-sung is a sung-well song
So sing
If nothing else you will remember
That you’re still breathing
So we’ll ignore those body parts
That get so wet and get so hard
And focus on our beating hearts
Your arm to hold me, here to guard me
And now if I make a big mistake
If nothing else, it won’t take
Forever just to find myself again
And the two of us have seen a lot
We make best of what we’ve got
And all we are is everyone and everything
We’ve ever seen
So tell me not to fall in love
With you
Frankly my dear, I think that’s
The sweetest thing you can do
Summer in my skin is nice
I remember our paradise
And I’ll just sit here every night
Stop and watch the world go by
And know my brain’s in motion to
Occasionally think of you
And hope that you still realize
That when you were by my side
Everything implied all seemed
Just fine
My heart’s a tambourine
That’s being beat in time