Love Is a Minor Key

Love is like a melody

It haunts my every memory

The harmony is dissonant despair

The orchestra is tuning up

As doors are swung and swiftly shut

I think about you more than I can bear

Love is like a minor key

A jaded weeping willow tree

It hooks its claws until the blood is drawn

The audience is spilling out

I slip into the busy crowd

But still your face remains after I’m gone

I could sleep until the summertime

Maybe then I’d get the peace of mind

Cut the wires of my telephone line

But even in the dead of night

I toss and turn like a little child

A heavy heart can never be satisfied

Love is like a melody

A fever to the remedy

I see you like a silent movie star

If you could step out of the screen

And wake me from this wretched dream

But I can only watch you from afar

I could sleep until the summertime

Maybe then I’d get the peace of mind

Cut the wires of my telephone line

But even in the dead of night

I toss and turn like a little child

A heavy heart can never be satisfied

Love is like a melody

It may ruin me

A deafening symphony

That pulls at the seams

Trapped in the rhapsody

That plays the wrong notes

It’s killing me slowly

So please let me go

Don’t let me go

Please let me go

Don’t let me go

Love is like a minor key

The widow in the cemetery

Whose make-up leaves a trail upon the ground

I thought I saw our name in lights

But that was in a former life

The song I sing is never sung aloud

And love is just a melody

And you will never even make a sound