Cover art for Lover I Don’t Have to Love by Bright Eyes
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Lover I Don’t Have to Love Lyrics

[Verse 3]
Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was parked

Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning

[Verse 4]
Bad actors with bad habits
Some sad singers, they just play tragic

And the phone's ringing, and the van's leaving
Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep, keep singing

[Chorus 2]
I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

[Verse 5]
But you, but you
You write such pretty words
But life's no story book

Love's an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt
"Do you like to hurt?"
"I do, I do!"
"Then hurt me."

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