You Never Asked Me

I don’t believe in love like that anyway

I would have told you that if you’d have asked me

The kind that comes along once and saves everything

Between a woman and a man

But I’d have died trying anyway

I might have told you that if you’d have asked me

I’d have died trying, tried everything

Until the day refused to return

I should have seen it from one hundred miles away

I should have beaten the odds of it any day

But I never could keep all the wolves at bay

Snarling and a-growling

It was an exercise in catastrophe

It was a dance of destruction

It was the daze of futility

It was the flight of fragile wings

Ambulance drivers and gravediggers

Mislaid fortunes growing bigger and bigger

Polar ice caps below and above

Conquered and claimed and ruined for love

As we glide along all the bends of time

Falling for little tricks of the mind

With memories of Eden now so far behind

And the taste of melting snow

I don’t believe in love like that anyway

The kind that comes along once and just saves the day

I think of it more like the rocks the waves chip away

As they become the sand

And I’d have told you that if you’d have asked me

We might have saved ourselves the disappointment

Yeah, I‘d have told you that if you’d ever asked me

And the day did not return