[Verse 1]
You found a way to break away
From the one you say that you love
Now you cry out your eyes, day and night
You set free the one that you love

[Pre-Chorus]
And it's true, I don't remember you
But I believe you if you say that we met
I get confused, nights I've been wondering
I thought I was already dead

[Chorus]
But man, I loved, yeah, I loved
When I loved, it was love
It was love or at least
The closest I got

[Verse 2]
And the coffee, the cream, the blood in my dreams
Are the ones I used to know
And the gas, the plane, the interstate
Live the ones you don't have to know

[Pre-Chorus]
And I regret this sad and awful truth
But my mouth, it'll get away from me
And you, I just put up with you
Kid, I stayed 'cause you wouldn't leave
[Chorus]
But remember love, oh, love
When we loved, it was love
It was love, or at least
As close as I've come

[Bridge]
And maybe Joan was right all along
There is a shortcut home
But putting a gun to your brain
Man'll take all that you got

[Verse 3]
And the truth is I was just scared for you
But for me, that's the way that it comes
You'd gotten used to me and my awful tongue
But god, didn't we have some fun?

[Pre-Chorus]
When we made love in the van
And I drove with your hand on my lap
When San Diego got too unkind
We just picked up and left him behind
And we had some love and some hope
A full tank o' gas and a wide open road
And it was love to us, it was all that we had
[Chorus]
And there's days you just break
The best thing you have
And I still call it love for now
It was the closest I'd come