love is like a bottle of gin

[juldea]

It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say thing off the cuff

It's very small and made of glass
and grossly over-advertised
It turns a genius into an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise

It could make you regret your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute

They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows

You can find it at the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain

You just get what they put in
and they never put in enough
Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love

Comments

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Some of it is pretty hard to listen to. They go a long way for a rhyme, and sometimes it just doesn't work - like "petunia" and "junior". *shudder* But I haven't found a song I never want to listen to again, yet. Just ones I prefer to not listen to often, or when I'm paying a lot of attention. ;)

I'm a big fan of "Promises of Eternity".