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      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      but man, I loved   yeah, I loved   when I loved   it was love   it was love   or at least, the closest I got      and the coffee, the cream   the blood in my dreams   are the ones you used to know   and the gas, the plane, the interstate   live the ones you don't have to know   and I regret this sad and awful truth   but my mouth, it'll get away from me   you, I just put up with you, kid   I stayed cause you wouldn't leave      remember love   oh, love   when we loved   it was love   it was love   or at least, as close as I've come      and maybe joan was running all alone   and there is a shortcut   by putting a gun to your brain   man, to take all that you got      and the truth was 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?   when we made love in the van   and I drove with your hand on my lap   and when san diego got too unkind   we just picked up and left it behind   and we had some love and some hope   a full tank of gas and a wide open road      it was love   to us, it was all that we had   and there's just a day when you just break   the best thing you had   and I still call it love   for now, it's the closest I've come