It Was Love - The Elected

You found a way to break away

From the one you say that you love

Now you cry out your eyes, day and night

You set free the one that you love

And it’s true, I don’t remember you

But I believe you if you say that we met

I get confused, nights I’ve been wondering

I thought I was already dead

But man, I loved, yeah, I loved

When I loved, it was love

It was love or at least

The closest I got

And the coffee, the cream, the blood in my dreams

Are the ones I used to know

And the gas, the plane, the interstate

Live the ones you don’t have to know

And I regret this sad and awful truth

But my mouth, it’ll get away from me

And you, I just put up with you

Kid, I stayed 'cause you wouldn’t leave

But remember love, oh, love

When we loved, it was love

It was love, or at least

As close as I’ve come

And maybe Joan was right all along

There is a shortcut home

But putting a gun to your brain

Man’ll take all that you got

And the truth is I was just scared for you

But for me, that’s the way that it comes

You’d gotten used to me and my awful tongue

But god, didn’t we have some fun?

When we made love in the van

And I drove with your hand on my lap

When San Diego got too unkind

We just picked up and left him behind

And we had some love and some hope

A full tank o' gas and a wide open road

And it was love to us, it was all that we had

And there’s days you just break

The best thing you have

And I still call it love for now

It was the closest I’d come