You can laugh all you want to, 
I don't care. 
Only one thing matters to me 
and it isn't here. 
Like a happy, go-easy girl, 
I should've waited for those railing bells. 
They were only the rattling about 
of my ruined shell. 

what do I know about love? 
I never could show myself. 
I lay down my cloud hung hopes 
wherever the first ones fell. 

I lit up to the tower 
when you were last asleep. 
With the pigeons and cobwebs to cover, 
I kept my peace. 
But this terrible aching was rumbling 
through the stone floors. 
And I set out to howling, 
Rescue me! 

what do I know about love? 
I never could show myself. 
I lay down my cloud hung hopes 
wherever the first ones fell. 

Stammer away, 
penny brigade, 
Hell sunk and fretless 
and dancing. 
I played all my fears 
into alchemy's ears 
and she's deaf to my 
every asking. 

Take this saturn-soft flesh, 
that I have smoothed over. 
Give it all up to gravel and grease 
and hard labor. 
There were lovers who shone over me 
like to shame the very sun, 
but the thieves who would spit on my breast 
were the generous ones. 

what do I know about love? 
I never could show myself. 
I lay down my cloud hung hopes 
wherever the first ones fell.