Love and Hate - Blitzen Trapper

When you left me, you left me on the way back down

Far afield and casting far away, back home

I was wounded, a cripple cast upon the streets

Pushed by currents coursing through my deepest dreams

And if I’m askin' myself why she would leave me here to die

Why love and hate, cohabitate in a lover’s lonely eye

Don’t ask why, oh, baby, don’t ask why, oh no

When you loved me your love was like a winding road

Long and leading blindly to the mountain’s edge

I was spellbound, seeking vainly for a sign

Silently suspended by the thinnest thread

And if I’m askin' myself why you would leave me here to die

Why love and hate, cohabitate in a lover’s lonely eye

Don’t ask why, oh, baby, don’t ask why, oh, oh, oh

When you left me I wandered down through dusty towns

Witness to the wars that raged within men’s minds

I was thirsty, a refugee upon the road

Walking through the ruins of this kingdom come

And if I’m asking myself why would you leave me here to die

Why love and hate, cohabitate in a lover’s lonely eye

Don’t ask why, oh, baby, don’t ask why, oh, oh, oh