What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

ngbernard

An old demo for a song written long, long ago

Come to the table darling speak with me a while
I never struck your face but I have never seen you smile
This is all I’ve given you, this is all enough
This is what we talk about when we talk about love

Your eyes are an ocean, your tear trails a course
The whales have found purpose and they’re beached on your shores
It’s like tennis played with bullets, set the hammer and serve
This is what we talk about when we talk about love

I could have a been a mother, I could have been a son
I could have been a baker, called to say your cake is done
I could have been a doctor, saved one life, that’d be enough
Well what’d you want to talk about when we talk about love?

The lonely king he prophesies in rhetoric and rhyme
He tries to be understood, he’d kill to be sublime
He seeks an end to songs and chains, affections undeserved
He don’t know what he talks about when he talks about love

We can go to the philosopher, we can go the sage
We can go the Nietzschean at the end of the age
We can ask this question of them when they say “you’ve got some nerve”
What’d you want to talk about when you talk about love?

There’s a tower burning brightly in the middle of the sea
It was there before the world was made by the shores of Galilee
What once was below us, it now rises above
This is what we talk about when we talk about love
This is what we talk about when we talk about love