Love Is Not an Answer - John Moreland

There’s a truth I need to trust

But I can’t remember how

It’s stuck there in the stillness

But the noise is too damn loud

And I thought I was an actor

I’d let my colors show

But what if I’m just a bastard

Laying low inside your radio

Won’t you help me make a fist

And choke the poison back

We’ll close our eyes each godforsaken time

The world gets painted black

And we’ll wonder where it comes from

How the pain cuts through the pride

When the tools we use to fix ourselves

Are just the fools we stood beside

But love is not an answer

I don’t need an answer, I need you

Devotion strong but tender

Devotion dark and cold

Devotion like an anchor

Swinging from my soul

I used to weigh the distance

I used to miss my cues

I used to say ‘I love you'

Then wonder who I’m talking to

So bring my all your questions

Bring me all your doubts

Don’t let me meet the devil

That I sang those songs about

Cause the hounds of youth are howling

And you’re all I’ve got to trust

With heaven’s lonely ghetto

Up there crying down on us