Our Love

Words & Music:

Rhett Miller

 

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Richard Wagner's letters to his lover Mathilde were a mess.

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He should have quit before he had written the address.

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They made love on the mezzanine, her husband was his friend.

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Vienna in a fugue-state working on a thing.

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That when he finished it took almost seven hours to sing.

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He still found time to write to her his heart-exploding words:

 

CHORUS:

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"Our love surpassed, our love so fast,

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Our love's all wrong, our love goes on and on.

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Our love became our love by name when I wrote it to you in a song.

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Our love goes on and on."  Our love, our love...

 

Kafka in his letters to his lover Milena was alive.

But he was waiting for a love that never would arrive.

Their rendezvous was singular, her husband was his friend.

She is a living fire she is a reason to live.

She is killing me burning only for him.

I'll spend my whole life loving her my heart exploding words:

 

CHORUS:  [last line 2x]

 

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE:

 

CHORUS:  [last line 4x]

 

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