Could Have Been (Our Song)

If hate is just love gone wrong
then we could have been fantastic
Because I love the way you move
but I hate the way you sing.
Yes, I love this song,
and you've got the dance just right,
but you're slaughtering it.

It's not your voice
and it's not the words
You know the lyrics so well
and you sing them so beautifully
It's a feeling
somewhere behind the words
that just isn't right
oh, isn't right at all.

You turn love-songs
into odes of silence
You turn rock-n-roll
into sticks-n-stones
You turn pop around
into something worth
listening to.

Yes, if any publicity is good publicity
then it explains why they say
that love can start with a war
because then all attention
is good attention
and I’m paying it to you
in how I could have been screaming
screaming out loud
“You’re ruining our song!”

Though we
we share nothing
We've got no song
no tune is ours
and if it was
if there was such a song
I bet you could sing it
and I would never complain
I would have no complaints
simply listening
would be enough,
for. me. then

It's not your voice
and it's not the words
You know the lyrics so well
and you sing them so beautifully
It's a feeling
somewhere behind the words
that just isn't right
oh, isn't right at all.