You take ten thousand tears Collected over 26 years You take a million lonely days Run together in a drunken haze You take half a dozen heartaches And eight apartments with 2nd hand clothes God knows how you take it, replace it With one love You take seven hundred sleepless nights Twice as many useless fights You take dirty disappointment Over dreams that died You found the fragile light behind my fear The hidden words that no one else could hear I had half a heart in a bag of bones Hopes cut off and turned to stone Dried up tears soaked in my skin I thought I'd never love again My pieces were just floating round til you took them And you made me whole somehow You gave me one love