Love's young nightmare wipes the corn silk off his face
And sees the sins of the last two thousand years fall into place
Tangled hair and tangled mind
Tangled sense of space and time
I strangled wallowing in the waste
And he says, "I spent the first half of my life
Living twice the life I need and now I'm ashes on the ground"
I'd like to wrap myself up in a crystal sheen coccoon
Heal myself and everyone around
Love's young nightmare smolders through the smoke and scorn
That has encircled him and let him cloud since the day that he was born
It's getting good at building fences
Barbed-wire fences for his senses
Senses scattered, battered, torn
And he says, "You know it's good to be a soul mate
But it's better being scarred 'cause you appreciate it more"
And I'll take scars above the stars above that shine
Down on us all here strewn across the floor
Forgive me if this song sounds breathless, rude, and wrong
But it's been building up inside
I've been suppressing for so long
It's been building up inside
I've been suppressing for so long
So long
So long
So long
So long
Love's young nightmare lived a long, long time and then
He faded out, headed in and lost himself again and again and again and again
And nothing bothered him nothing in the least
Or so he said he said he said he said he said
Except when I remember and when it rains or snows and when the monkey shows his teeth
And when the sunlight hits my eyes and when the clouds roll in
And when I walk, and talk, and eat, and sleep, and breathe, and when I