Your love is sweet and soft Look how you use those eyes And the way you compromise Your love is sweet and strong It pulls me in with the tide And up is down and down is wrong Go or stay, stay or go Just be a poet about it Fall down on your knees Be a poet if that's what you claim to be Be a poet outside of your sad poetry Your love is neither hot nor cold It's that you can't quite name it that makes me feel old
Your love comes apart when it hits the light Go or stay / stay or go Just be a poet about it Fall down on your knees Be a poet if that's what you claim to be Be a poet outside of your sad poetry Be a poet about it Yeah, work up a sweat Do everything you have not done yet Be a poet outside of your sad poetry Your love is sweet and it's soft I'd k** to believe those eyes Just look how I compromised