Love Songs and Love Addiction

While this town is busy sleeping,
All the noise has died away.
I walk the streets to stop my weeping,
'Cause she'll never change her ways.

Don't fool yourself,
She was heartache from the moment that you met her.
My heart feels so still
As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.
Oh I think I've forgotten her now.

Her love is a rose, pale and dying.
Dropping her petals in land unknown
All full of wine, the world before her,
Was sober with no place to go.

Don't fool yourself,
She was heartache from the moment that you met her.
My heart is frozen still
As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.

She's somewhere out there now.
Well my tears falling down as I try to forget,
Her love was a joke from the day that we met.
All of the words, all of her men,
All of my pain when I think back to when.

Remember her hair as it shone in the sun,
The smell of the bed when I knew what she'd done.
Tell yourself over and over
You won't ever need her again.

But don't fool yourself,
She was heartache from the moment that you met her.
My heart is frozen still
As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.
She's out there somewhere now.

Oh she was heartache from the day that I first met her.
My heart is frozen still
As I try to find the will to forget you, somehow.
'Cause I know you're somewhere out there right now.

This my excavation and to-
Day is Qumran
Everything that happens is from now on
This is pouring rain
This is paralyzed

I keep throwing it down, two
Hundred at a time
It's hard to find it when you knew it
When your money's gone
And you're drunk as hell

On your back with your racks as he stacks your load
In the back with the racks and he stacks your load
In the back with the racks and you're unstacking your load

I've been twisting to the sun
I needed to replace
And the fountain in the front yard is rusted out
All my love was down
In a frozen ground

There's a black crow sitting across from me
His wiry legs are crossed
He's dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss
Whatever could it be
That has brought me to this loss?

On your back with your racks as he stacks your load
In the back with the racks and he stacks your load
In the back with the racks and you're unstacking your load

This is not the sound of a new man
Or a crispy realization
It's the sound of me unlocking and you lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to form
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking, feeling
Spin me around again
And rub my eyes
This can't be happening
When busy streets
A mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover
The sweeping insensitivity of this
Still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines

Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that it's just what we need
You decided this
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, what did she say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit

Oh, no, you don't care a bit
Oh, no, you don't care a bit
Uh-uh, you don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit

I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine

You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'

You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down
Yeah, Yeah

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You're mine

I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
If you don't want me
I'm yours right now

You hear me
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine

You named me judge the day that I was born
You asked too much to fix what you had torn
Things got out of hand, now I understand

And I'm out of your range
Now it's kind of strange
How we change orbit in our lives
You were kind of a moon outside of my room
I could just feel you nearby
Now I feel you gone
'Cause I know which side you're on
And it's not mine

I walk the line between now and then
It's deep-sea diving with no oxygen
Guess I went somewhere to hide
Far behind my eyes
I willed you there to see
But you never came for me

And I'm out of your range
Now it's kind of strange
How we change orbit in our lives
You were kind of a moon outside of my room
I could just feel you nearby
Now I feel you gone
'Cause I know which side you're on
And it's not mine
And it's not mine
And it's not mine

(please put me to bed
and turn down the light)

fold down your hands
give me a sigh
put down your lies

lay down next to me
don't listen when I scream
bury your doubts and fall asleep

find out I was just a bad dream

let the bed sheet soak up my tears
and watch the only way out disappear
don't tell me why
kiss me goodbye

for neither ever nor never
goodbye
neither ever nor never
goodbye

Oh! the raven’s song is short, but it’s strong
Like the mind of an eager man
As the sun is goin down I hear a raven makin his rounds
Harvest his woe up from the land
Would I know my friends?
Could my eyes turn within?
Would I cherish my own kind
If the raven’s song were mine?
Oh! the raven’s song is short, but it’s strong
Like the mind of an eager man

Older brother, restless soul, lie down
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth
And you'll hear your sister sleep talking
Say "Your hair is long but not long enough to reach
Home to me
But your beard
Someday might be"

And she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
She'll lay it aside

Older father, weary soul, you'll drive
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
With that ugly, terrible thing
Those papers for divorce
And a lonely ring
A lonely ring
Sit on your porch
And pluck your strings

And you'll find somebody you can blame
And you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
And you'll find the peace of the Lord.

Grandfather, weary soul, you'll fly
Over your life once more before you die
Since our grandma passed away
You've waited for forever and a day
Just to die
And someday soon
You will die

It was the only woman you ever loved
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
And there's nothing you can do about it now

Totsuzen no kisu ya atsui manazashi de
[With a sudden kiss or a fiery stare]

Koi no puroguramu o kuruwasenai de ne
[Don't mess up my programs of love]

Deai to wakare jōzu ni uchikonde
[I've input hellos and goodbyes so neatly]

Jikan ga kureba owaru
[Everything comes to an end in due time]

Don't hurry!

Ai ni kizutsuita anohi kara zutto
[Ever since that day I got hurt by love]

Hiru to yoru ga gyaku no kurashi o tsuzukete
[I've been living a vampire life]

Hayari no disco de odori akasu uchini
[While dancing nights away at trendy discos]

Oboeta majutsu nanoyo
[I've learned this magic]

I'm sorry!

Watashi no koto o kenutse honki de aisanai de
[Never love me seriously]

Koi nante tadano gēmu
[Love is just a game]

Tanoshimeba sorede iino
[If I'm having fun, that's enough]

Tozanutsa kokoro o kazaru hadena doresu mo kutsu mo
[Fancy dresses and shoes that decorate my closed mind]

Kodoku na tomodachi
[They're my friends to ease lonliness]

Watashi o sasou hito wa hinikuna mono ne itsumo kare ni niteruwa nazeka
[Ironically every guy who asks me out looks like him for some reason]

Omoide to kasanariau
[That provokes my memories]

Gurasu o otonutse kyū ni namidagundemo
[Even if I drop a glass and suddenly fill my eyes with tears]

Wake wa tazunenai de ne
[Don't ask me why]

Ai ni kizutsuita anohi kara zutto
[Ever since that day I got hurt by love]

Hiru to yoru ga gyaku no kurashi o tsuzukete
[I've been living a vampire life]

Hayari no disco de odori akasu uchini
[While dancing nights away at trendy discos]

Oboeta majutsu nanoyo
[I've learned this magic]

I'm sorry!

Watashi no koto o kenutse honki de aisanai de
[Never love me seriously]

Koi nante tadano gēmu
[Love is just a game]

Tanoshimeba sorede iino
[If I'm having fun, that's enough]

Tozanutsa kokoro o kazaru hadena doresu mo kutsu mo
[Fancy dresses and shoes that decorate my closed mind]

Kodoku na tomodachi
[They're my friends to ease lonliness]

Yohuke no kōsoku de nemuri ni tsuku koro
[When I fall asleep on an expressway late at night]

Harogen raito dake ayashiku kagayaku
[Only halogen lights shine mysteriously]

Kōri no yōni tsumetai onna dato
[That I'm a woman as cold as ice]

Sasayaku koe ga nutsemo
[Even if you hear a voice whispering so]

Don't worry!
I'm just playing games
I know that's plastic love
Dance to the plastic beat
Another morning comes

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the d**n thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing
But I
I love it when you read to me
And you
You can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
But I
I love it when you sing to me
And you
You can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
You ought to give me wedding rings