A Broken Frame

I've read more than a hundred books
Seen love mentioned many thousand times
But despite all the places i've looked
It's still no clearer it's just not enough
I'm still no nearer the meaning of love

Noted down all my observations
Spent an evening watching television
Still i couldn't say with precision
Know it's a feeling and it comes from above
But what's the meaning, the meaning of love?

The meaning of love
Tell me the meaning of love

From the notes that i've made so far
Love seems something like wanting a scar
But i could be wrong, i'm just not sure you see,
I've never been in love before

Next i asked several friends of mine
If they could spare a few minutes of their time
Their look suggested that i'd lost my mind
Tell me the answer, my lord high above
Tell me the meaning, the meaning of love

The meaning of love
Tell me the meaning of love

From the notes that i've made so far
Love seems something like wanting a scar
But i could be wrong, i'm just not sure you see,
I've never been in love before

Tell me the meaning of love

When the site was found we laid the foundations down
It didn't take long before they came back tumbling down
Don't build at night, you need a little light
How else you gonna see what it's gonna be like?

So we picked up our tools and we worked in the morning light
With the last stone placed wasn't it a wonderful sight?
But it fell back down and scattered all around
Anything passes when you need glasses

My monument
It fell down

Work all of my days for this kind of praise
It fell down

I've told myself so many times before
But this time i think i mean it for sure
We have reached a full stop
Nothing's gonna save us from the big drop

Reached our natural conclusion
Outlived the illusion
I hate being in these situations
That call for diplomatic relations

If i only knew the answer
Or i thought we had a chance
Or i could stop this
I would stop this thing from spreading like a cancer

What can i say? (i don't want to play) anymore
What can i say? i'm heading for the door
I can't stand this emotional violence
Leave in silence

We've been running around in circles all year
Doing this and that and getting nowhere
This'll be the last time
(i think i said that last time)

If i only had a potion,
Some magical lotion
That could stop this, i would stop this
I would set the wheels in motion

What can i say? (i don't want to play) anymore
What can i say? i'm heading for the door
I can't stand this emotional violence
Leave in silence

My secret garden's not so secret anymore
Run from the house holding my head in my hands
Feeling dejected, feeling like a child might feel

It all seems so absurd that this should have occurred
My very only secret and i had to go and leak it
My secret garden's not so secret anymore

No, my secret garden's not so secret anymore
Run through the fields down to the edge of the water
Can't stay long, here comes the reason why

She'll catch me if she can, take me by the hand
I'll have to keep on running and i just can't see the fun in
My secret garden not being secret anymore

It used to be so easy on days such as these she'd
Search and search for hours, in among the flowers

I loved it, i loved her

Play the fool, act so cruel (i loved it)
Read a book, take a look (i loved her)

It all seems so absurd that this should have occurred
My very only secret and i had to go and leak it
My secret garden's not so secret anymore

Someone will call
Something will fall
And smash on the floor
Without reading the text
Know what comes next
Seen it before
And it's painful

Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that i'm saying
The game's not worth playing
Over and over again

You're the one i like best
You retain my interest
You're the only one
If it wasn't for you
Don't know what i'd do
Unpredictable like the sun
And the rainfall

Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that i'm saying
The game's not worth playing
Over and over again