Strange Kind of Love

She's like a mermaid Locked in the dungeon of a sunken ship She thinks she's happy Though she's been drawn in by shallow things She closes her eyes And he keeps all the treasure he finds In the back of my mind I hear the devil sing It's a strange kin

Inflammable I can see you with your soul in your eyes About to catch fire And I want to cool you down But words just slip away from me Untouchable I know you only seem that way But you push me to the edge And you push me back again Closing doors and

Move your lazybones You've got a burden of proof Prove it to yourself Find out the truth There are no tears in our eyes That were no already cried I'll be there tonight Waiting for you We'll set sail on when the seas are rough And we'll twist and tur

I am shipwrecked in the night I watched a girl with eyes like thin ice Say "Dive into these pools of blue," But I tripped over you I curse these cool whispering lights I curse the things that keep me from you Again my patience makes the climb Wi

On the blind side and down the back ways The roots of sadness crawl, When you can't get what you need You feel like taking a torch to it all All the sweet talk makes a bitter man You can feel the darkness rise Sometimes you don't know what you're fig

A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling Swims through your eyes And like the doors To a wide vast dominion They open to your prize This is no terror ground Or place for the rage No broken hearts White-washed lies Just a taste for the truth P

Wanted an invitation from a window or a woman's laugh Just a little something everybody else seemed to have The cushion of love to help me take the strain I hope it rains the day I die, it's hard to explain I was told the streets were paved with gold