The Loneliness Waltz - The Ballroom Thieves

Toothless and tired, my soul finds the door

To breathe and to be nothing less, nothing more

Safe from disaster and spared by your love

Settle down now, I think that’s enough

Settle down now, that’s surely enough

Clung to its sleeve, this old heart’s fit to choke

Lest you light up my drink or you fill up my smoke

All the parents and the poets can cry in their graves

From the lack of the love you gave

From the lack of the love we gave

We are frivolous with our hearts

Watch them bend till they break

Then we pick up the parts

Yeah, we give, we take

We save and condemn

And we live just to love again

Comfort reminds us of how it should feel

It wistfully chains us to fictive ideals

And it spurs us to keep all our love in a jar

Says I’m just keeping you from harm

Just trying to keep you from harm

We are frivolous with our hearts

Watch them bend till they break

Then we pick up the parts

Yeah, we give, we take

We save and condemn

And we live just to love again

Well, someday we’ll see we’ve got nothing to lose

We’ll be dancing on tables in our Sunday shoes

And you’ll know that these words I would never betray

You’re the rose and the thorn and you’re safe

You’re the rose and the thorn and you’re safe

Yeah, you’re the rose and the thorn and you’re safe