Is Love

She stares into the mirror, youth fading with the sun The hollows in her face like wishing wells Scarlet as a papercut and jeweled as the Orion She'd never worn that jewellery as a girl She says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" She says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" He stares into the river, heart falling to the drift An argument of cars moving full steam behind Bloodshot as a baby and sulking like a valley Fishing in reflections, killing time He says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" He says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" It's a bath that's getting cold while you're frozen to your bed The milk that's going rancid on the table The panic in the evening, the photos in the dustbin The pointless items we forgot to label It's the perfume on her wrist that stinks of easy birthday's The spare keys like asbestos on the side It's the cross around his neck, for luck and not for honor Like diamond over knuckle on a newly married bride She says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" He says, "The only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love" I know the only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love I know the only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always sounds Is love