Dan Bern | Love Song To You

The clock tower strikes fifteen
And the pimps and whores and queens
Get together and read scenes
From Ionesco

The cowards and the thieves
Sign autographs on leaves
While the priests and unbelievers
Dine al fresco

CHORUS:
I’ll be a love song to you
You’ll be a love song to me
Nothing else exists
There’s nothing more to hear or see
You’ll be a love song to me
I’ll be a love song to you
The furies and the rains
Can never make us be untrue

Men of power men of pain,
Flood the temples yet again
For a word or a cane
To console them

Angels clean the city streets
Trudging with their filthy feet
Begging now to eat
What’s been stolen.

On the box comes Dan Rather
Talking like so many other
Aspirants to Big Brother’s
Armchair

But you can sneeze and you can cough
You can weep and you can laugh
You can turn the switch to “off”
Forever

Chorus

I cleaned out the bottom drawer
Containing all the things you wore
It’s the one I always swore
Would not lie empty

I threw your bags in the alley way
They were gone by early yesterday
And so was I, what can I say
You missed me

Chorus

Long trips by car should be for friends
Or lovers who have made amends
Not for those who’ve found dead ends
The highway is so cold

Gathering all the courage I could find
I carved from stone and left unsigned
A monument to your behind
To rage against the wind

Chorus:
I’ll be a love song to you
You’ll be a love song to me
Nothing else exists
There’s nothing more to hear or see
You’ll be a love song to me
I’ll be a love song to you
The furies and the rains
Can never make us be untrue

(lyrics: Dan Bern)