Love of Our Lives

I open my hands up to see what I've got

My days slip like coins into a slot they are gone

And the shadows lie long

I've been banking on a broken machine, left unattended like most of my dreams

Rusty components of an unmarked song

We've been staring down the brilliant dream, the sun burns our eyes

We've been fighting for the love of our lives

All around us things come apart, broken pieces and broken hearts

Fix me, oil me, match me with the next best thing

Person to person, nation to nation, heals the gate of communication

While it's time the time sneaks her weathering

We've been wanting to be held by binding ties

We've been fighting for the love of our lives

And when it breaks down I beg you don't go

I sickle your ship I'm ready to blow

I try to out think you with an army of words

I strategize; I am fighting for the love of my life

Iron, water, oxygen, scotch and soda or any combination starts the reaction

Is there no mastermind of modern day

Who can blueprint a plan to make love stay sturdy and weatherproof, ushering in a new revolution

At the drawing board the hopeful ones still try

How can we help it when we're fighting for the love of our lives