It Was Love

[Verse 1]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

But man, I loved, yeah, I loved

When I loved, it was love

It was love or at least

The closest I got

[Verse 2]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

But remember love, oh, love

When we loved, it was love

It was love, or at least

As close as I've come

[Bridge]

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

[Verse 3]

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?

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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