Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Live) - Eliza Gilkyson

My love he speaks like silence

Without ideals or violence

He doesn't have to say he's faithful

Yet he's true like ice like fire

People carry roses

And make promises by the hours

My love he laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy him

In the dime stores and bus stations

People talk of situations

Read books repeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

Don't speak of the future

My love he speaks softly

He 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 pawn must hold a grudge

Statues made of matchsticks

Crumble into one another

My love winks he does not bother

He knows too much to argue or to judge

The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Banker's nieces seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows rain in

My love he's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing