Valentine's Day Is Over...

[waitingman]

Contrary to what a lot of people say about his songs being for those who are tired of life, I find this piece by Leonard Cohen to be uplifting, hopeful & even, perhaps, a tad optimistic...


'Ain't No Cure For Love'

I loved you for a long, long time
I know this love is real
It don't matter how it all went wrong
That don't change the way I feel
And I can't believe that time will heal
This wound I'm speaking of
There ain't no cure for love

I'm aching for you baby
I can't pretend I'm not
I need to see you naked
In your body and your thought
I've got you like a habit
And I'll never get enough
There ain't no cure for love

There ain't no cure for love
All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky
Holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But they'll never ever find that cure for love
No pill, no drug
There's nothing pure enough

I see you in the subway and I see you on the bus
I see you lying down with me, I see you waking up
I see your hand, I see your hair
Your bracelets and your brush
And I call to you, I call to you
But I don't call soft enough
There ain't no cure for love

I walked into this empty church I had no place else to go
When the sweetest voice I ever heard, whispered to my soul
I don't need to be forgiven for loving you so much
It's written in the scriptures
It's written there in blood
I even heard the angels declare it from above
There ain't no cure for love

There ain't no cure for love
No pill, no drug, it's all been cut with stuff
I can't get nothing done, can't be with anyone
I don't want your brother love, I want that other love
Ain't no cure for love

I don't expect a medal, just because the scene got rough
And I see you've been so careful to forget how good it was
I'm never giving in, oh I'll never give it up babe
There ain't no cure for love

Hard times for a single man...