Persuasion - Patti Smith

What is the system that gets around?

Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm

The young glow but old men know

It’s all a part of some crazy schism

Comin' on like the dawn, unrelentin' light

Streets thick with its radiatin'

It’s all a glow but we all know

True love is so complicated

Feelin' funny, don’t know why

I’m on a plane circlin' high

Equation, persuasion

It’s just persuasion

Who needs the body that has nobody?

Go through life with nobody at all

It come and go where the wind blow

When persuasion comes to call

Feelin' funny, don’t know why

I’m on a plane flying too high

Invasion, persuasion

It’s just persuasion

It’s just persuasion

It’s just persuasion

Got me reelin' don’t know why

I’m on a plane circling high

Equation, persuasion

Got the feeling I’m runnin' in place

Caught in the orbit of the human race

Invasion, persuasion

It’s just persuasion

It’s just persuasion

It’s just persuasion

Who needs the body that has nobody?

Who needs the rise without the fall?

Who needs illusion without beauty?

Who needs the system that’s no system at all?

Hey scout, there’s no equation

You can’t prepare for the heart’s invasion

You can’t prepare for the heart’s invasion

Love is its own persuasion

Love is its own persuasion

Love has its own persuasion