Ballad of Love and Hate (Avett Brothers)

Song Ballad of Love and Hate (Avett Brothers)
Artist Dia Frampton
Album Cover Mondays

Lyrics

[00:02.070] Love writes a letter and sends it to hate.
[00:10.190] My vacations ending.
[00:12.900] I'm coming home late.
[00:18.320] The weather was fine and the ocean was greatand
[00:26.140] I can't wait to see you again.
[00:33.830] Hate reads the letter and throws it away.
[00:41.690] "No one here cares if you go or you stay.
[00:49.730] I barely even noticed that you were away.
[00:57.260] I'll see you or I won't, whatever."
[01:05.060] Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street.
[01:13.330] Every stranger and drifter he greets.
[01:21.210] And shakes hands with every loner he meets
[01:29.390] with a serious look on his face.
[01:37.100] Love sings a song as she sails through the sky.
[01:45.100] The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes.
[01:53.480] And everyone knows it whenever she flies,
[02:00.940] and also when she comes down.
[02:08.140] Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow.
[02:15.890] Carrying with her the good things we know.
[02:23.770] A reason to live and a reason to grow.
[02:31.630] To trust.
[02:32.820] To hope.
[02:34.120] To care.
[02:38.680] Hate sits alone on the hood of his car.
[02:46.140] Without much regard to the moon or the stars.
[02:53.990] Lazily killing the last of a jar of the strongest stuff you can drink.
[03:09.010] Love takes a taxi, a young man drives.
[03:17.510] As soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes.
[03:25.540] But tears follow after, at the end of the ride,
[03:33.790] cause he might never see her again.
[03:40.690] Hate gets home lucky to still be alive.
[03:49.080] He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive.
[03:56.650] The clock in the kitchen says 2:55,
[04:04.730] And the clock in the kitchen is slow.
[04:12.020] Love has been waiting, patient and kind.
[04:19.910] Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign,
[04:28.340] That the one that she cares for, who's out of his mind,
[04:36.540] Will make it back safe to her arms.
[04:43.840] Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door.
[04:52.160] Weary head hung down, eyes to the floor.
[05:00.050] He says "Love, I'm sorry",
[05:03.300] and she says,"What for?I'm yours and that's it, Whatever.
[05:17.280] I should not have been gone for so long.I'm yours and that's it, forever."
[05:32.380] You're mine and that's it, forever.