A Song About Love [lyrics]

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Hi, Crow.  Honestly it doesn't do much for me and I'm pretty surprised that such an innovative poet is putting this effort into what for me is mostly a string of cliches. What up with that? Others may feel differently, but I've put some notes below to try to walk you through my experience with it.

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12-22-2015, 12:19 PM 

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A Song About Love

[Verse]
Oh, my love, look what the day's done.
It started off sweet . . .
How have I ended up 
Feeling so achingly incomplete?
Nothing new here, especially achingly incomplete. You're telling me, not making me feel it. I heard Dan Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne this morning, still aching from it.

Everything I ever wanted
Was right here, between my fingers. For me, not far enough from "in my hand" to keep it from cliche.
I guess the world must be wicked after all— Wicked world, cliche.
It took your smile and made it sting. First line that touched me.

[Chorus]
This song is about love, 
How it hurts you to your knees,
Makes, "Come home soon,
"Baby, won't you?,"
Turn to, "Please! Please!" Meh, okay but not a knockout.

[Verse]
And what am I 
Supposed to love now?
Must be the pain
Since there's nothing else.
Nothing new here.

I'm trying to be proud,
But the heart knows how to break:
Where you're strongest,
It just adds memories.
Again, nothing grabs my interest.

[Chorus, soft]
This song is about love.
It makes your prayers into fragile things, Are prayers often other than fragile, especially in heartbreak?
When what you want most,
It won't let you keep.
That's life.

[Chorus, loud]
Said, this song is about love,
Makes a man say the strangest things,
Like, "Hallelujah!,"
And, "I want it again."
Yes, but nothing new.

I've spent much of my spare time this week on repeated viewings/listenings to Adele in Concert and John Lennon's 75th Birthday Concert. I expect a lot from lyrics right now. I hope my notes help, have a wonderful holiday and new year.