Love Like This

Years-years-years ago my mother used to say to me.

'In this world elwood' she- she always called me elwood.

'In this world elwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.'

Well for years I was smart; I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

If I'd known there was love like this I'd-a grabbed a fucking scalpel I'd-a slit my wrists in the goddamn delivery room

Hell I'd-a jumped back in the womb

Love be the shit that's gonna seal my doom.

Jj-jj-jj- just cause you made our bed doesn't mean you had to lie in it

Look me in the eye sayin together till we die and shit

Well feel my fuckin pulse cause I ain't fucking dead yet

Listen close does it echo through your headset?

When we first met, I didn't know what I was doing

And I guess yo were sick of that girl's boyfriend you were screwing

Instead of thinking in my head were you worth perusing

I shoulda looked into your eyes and seen a storm was brewing

But you needed a new angle so you intercepted my life line

I must admit you were looking good so I granted you my time

Behind every acute angle you find an obtuse one

As a hand caressed my thigh over my head a fresh noose hung

But this one I thought maybe I could trust her

We'd grown close over time I though maybe I'd sussed her

I threw my heart shaped anchor with all the strength I could muster

It fell short and ripped up the hard seabed up in clusters

But that didn't phase me, I just kept on going

With my chest ripped open and my heart still showing

I was naive like that, see my mind was still groing

I thought with trust and persistence that the love would start flowing

But it didn't so I pushed and pushed to invoke

New levels of love but instead we just broke

At that point you chose to let me in

And that's where all the problems began to begin

[X2] if I'd known there was love like this I'd-a grabbed a fucking scalpel I'd-a slit my wrists in the goddamn delivery room

Hell I'd-a jumped back in the womb

Love be the shit that's gonna seal my doom. [x2]

Now just suppose I was to juxtapose my soft right cheek against your nose

Would you look me in the eyes and fall in love like the t.v. Shows?

Or maybe if I took a rose with an envelope with a note enclosed

That said our love inside me like a flower grows

Would it really make any fucking difference? Cause it shouldn't

Would you sell yourself for one cheap gesture?

Cause I couldn't and I wouldn't

I know that's all it'd take to win you back

But I ain't looking to soil my shoes on such a well trodden track

So you can take your love by numbers and put it up on the rack

Just impose your shit and baggage on some other mindless hack

Now just suppose I was to juxtapose my tightened fist against your nose

Releasing blood with color deeper than the deepest rose

Releasing streams of anger that we all have yet no one shows

Release me from the fucking chains of heartbreak that you sill impose

And that'd be wrong and I ain't gonna do it

But there ain't no harm in putting this plot in my mind and walking through it

So fuck you for still spending time with my friends

And fuck them for not knowing what's appropriate and when

And it's fuck up that all the good times seem to blend

Into one big fucking mess from the beginning to the end

So take a good look at my face

And you'll see that this little smile seems outta place

Now go ahead and look closer but I'll never let you trace

The tracks of my tears

[X3] if I'd known there was love like this I'd-a grabbed a fucking scalpel I'd-a slit my wrists in the goddamn delivery room

Hell I'd-a jumped back in the womb

Love be the shit that's gonna seal my doom. [x3]