Love Minus Zero / No Limit

My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She don't have to say she's faithful
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy

In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk over situations
Read books, recite quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all

The cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light their candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even a pawn must hold a grudge
Statues made of match sticks
They crumble into one another
My love winks, she don't bother
She knows too much to argue or judge

The bridge at midnight trembles
Country doctors ramble
Bankers' nieces seek perfection
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer
The night it blows cold and rainy
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing

My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing
Yeah, my love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing