It's just a sound now
On hollow ground now
The word is gone now
From dusk 'til dawn now
I say "Love"
It feels so strange
A rusty hinge
I say "Love"
It starts to change
On the outer fringe
I say "Love"
Rearrange
My final cringe
I killed the word with my own mouth
I sent its meaning to the south
Into a land of endless drouth
It's just a sound now
On hollow ground now
The word is gone now
From dusk 'til dawn now
I say "L-ove"
My tongue is thick
A foreign shape
I say "Luhv"
A simple trick
A cheap escape
I say "Ov"
A nervous tic
On the final tape
The dictionary is a tomb
A silent and forgotten room
Where feelings wait for their own doom
It's just a sound now
On hollow ground now
The word is gone now
From dusk 'til dawn now
I say ""
The echo bites
A broken bell
I say ""
It reads the rites
Of its own hell
I say ""
And in the nights
I cannot tell
And when the final word is dead
And all the pretty things are said
There's only silence in my head
It's just a sound now
On hollow ground now
The word is gone now
From dusk 'til dawn now