What Do We Do With Love?

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Verse 1]
We put it on a plinth and pray to it as if it were a god
We tell our children it's the finest thing upon this gasping sod
We dress it up in jeweled clothes and strip it down to naked flesh
We make it sacred, make it powerful, destructive, pure and fresh

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Verse 2]
We melt it down and pour into molds of lust and sin and shame
We terrify our kids with foul abuse committed in it's name
We glorify it's use to tame the ravaged psyche of the beast
We make it slow, we make it rough, we make it twice a week at least

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Verse 3]
We put it on T.V., on t-shirts, wanted ads and the movie screen
We make it jealous, make it tragic, make it sordid and obscene
We pump it up till it is bigger than Titanic on the waves
And watch in disbelief as it explodes and fills a thousand graves

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Bridge 1]
We use it, we lose it, we screw it up

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Verse 4]
We shove it down the throats of anyone who feels a little bit morose
We wield it to break down the walls that hide the things we want the most
We use it to gain access to the flesh that makes us ache with lust
We use it to convince ourselves we're more than skin, bone and dust

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Verse 5]
We paint it, rhyme it, put it in a song and hope it hits the charts
We make it into crosses, angels, breasts and dicks and interlocking hearts
We wound and harm it with attention, kill it dead with our demands
Revive it skillfully to do cool tricks at our beck and command

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?

[Bridge 2]
We make it, we fake it, we waste it all

[Chorus]
What do we do with love, sweet love?
What do we do with love?