Teach me that love is free

Be my heart, my hand, I can’t believe the things I’ve done

Take my love and turn it into something we can trust

Show me how to aim ‘til this piss on my shoe is gone

Show me who I am, and I’ll tell you who I’m not

Teach me that love is free

Make the choice to be mine and I’ll be forever yours

Sell me lies about the world and I’ll give you guided tours

Dance me to the end, and we’ll pass along the war

Teach me what all of this is for

I'm just a man, I can’t pretend, I’m lost beneath the sand

I’m crying out for love, and a soul I can depend

Watching others through the glass made from my burning heart

Her mystery’s a start, but so far from the end

Her tender arms are wrapped around my barbed wire heart

And I can’t let her in

The risks are minor relative to the price of loveless life

That’s something that I need to learn between this darkening strife

Fancy words and chatty birds won’t melt this famous knife

Say to me what’s only said between us in the night

And teach me that love is free