Love Minus Zero/No Limit

[Verse 1]

My love, she speaks like silence

Without ideals or violence

She doesn't have to say she's faithful

Yet she's true, like ice, like fire

[Verse 2]

People carry roses

And make promises by the hours

My love, she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy her

[Verse 3]

In the dime stores and bus stations

People talk of situations

Read books, repeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

[Verse 4]

Some speak of the future

My love, she speaks softly

She knows there's no success like failure

And that failure's no success at all

[Verse 5]

The cloak and dagger dangles

Madams light the candles

In ceremonies of the horsemen

Even a pawn must hold a grudge

[Verse 6]

Statues made of match sticks

Crumble into one another

My love winks, she does not bother

She knows too much to argue or to judge

[Verse 7]

The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Bankers' nieces seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

[Verse 8]

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows rainy

My love, she's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing