You can keep this brand of love
because it does not bring me much joy
so you can keep this brand of love
and keep your toys of gloom
And I will go
and you can keep this brand of love
and wrap it around your ring finger
because warped love lives only by its symbols
and symbols there are a-plenty
So you can keep this brand of love
because it does not do me much good
and all the juices of the living
have dried up and are rarefied, extracted
and moulded into a band of Platinum
They say prayer songs to the rain gods were made
because there was no rain
And all the songs of love collected
play on because all there is - is pain
So you can keep this brand of love
And wrap yourself in its tragedy
Sublimate it, you've got good poetry
Degrade it you've got a wreck of me
to keep
so ignore me and keep this brand of love
And frame pictures of it in your room
The pictures are no good to me
They don't talk and look like relics from faraway anyway
Then there are the things of togetherness
the smells and familiarity that will erode with time
but you can keep this brand of love
it will last you all you like
When the tears stop welling
and I am numb and cold
You will still have a piece of metal
around your finger to hold
So keep the symbols for posterity
and you can keep this brand of love
you can keep this brand of love
the only thing that can be kept
You are welcome to it.
