Elliott Smith True Love Lyrics

True Love Lyrics

true love is a rose

in a case that's locked to get closed

cuz it's
way more expensive than anybody on earth 

so bought mine off the street


true love man just can't be beat 

i felt so complete 

like
all my romans turned into ??

and each night i look up 

at a bright
honey moon 

it seems so built to last 

even after my honey moon
past 

i went right after it 

like a ghost 

to the house it
once haunted 

day after day 

i'd steal with my true love away 

to some hide out left undisturbed 

we could do what we wanted 

but i started to feel like a liar 

saying i love you 

she was
madly in love and at me 

there's no in between 

felt so cold

i can't make a stand 

i'm her hired hand 

i have to do harm 

one day i got sick 

she played me a nasty old trick 

said i need
cigarettes 

walked round the block 

caught a cab 

stayed gone
for too long 

my love had gotten too strong 

just to try getting
back on my own 

i had to go to rehab 

all i need is a safe place to
bleed

they said this is it

Well half a chance

steps in a
dance

now i'm the king of the ward 

cause i'm good and i swallow my
sword 

puke it up

so the doctor can write his prescription

tranquil as a dove 

people that have lost their true love 

they
all seem to fit the same description 

they feel cold, they feel old

like a no one

take me home

take me home today

take me out
of this place

take me out, do it today