Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Take 2, Acoustic)

My love she speaks like silence

Above all ideals and violence

She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful

Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire

People carry roses

And make promises by the hours

My love she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can’t buy her

In the dime stores and bus stations

People speak of situations

Read books and rеpeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

While somе talk of the future

My love she talks softly

She knows there’s no success like failure

And that failure’s no success at all

The cloak and dagger dangles

Madams light the candles

In ceremonies of the horsemen

Even the pawns must hold a grudge

Statues made of matchsticks

Crumble into one another

My love winks, she does not bother

She knows too much to argue or to judge

The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Bankers’ nieces seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows cold and rainy

My love she’s like a raven

At my window with a broken wing