You can laugh all you want to, I don't care. Only one thing matters to me And it isn't here. Like a happy, go-easy girl, I should've waited for those railing bells. They were only the rattling about Of my ruined shell. What do I know about love? I never could show myself. I lay down my cloud hung hopes Wherever the first ones fell. I lit up to the tower When you were last asleep. With the pigeons and cobwebs to cover, I kept my peace. But this terrible aching was rumbling Through the stone floors. And I set out to howling, Rescue me! What do I know about love? I never could show myself. I lay down my cloud hung hopes Wherever the first ones fell. Stammer away, Penny brigade, Hell sunk and fretless And dancing. I played all my fears Into alchemy's ears And she's deaf to my Every asking. Take this saturn-soft flesh, That I have smoothed over. Give it all up to gravel and grease And hard labor. There were lovers who shone over me Like to shame the very sun, But the thieves who would spit on my breast Were the generous ones. What do I know about love? I never could show myself. I lay down my cloud hung hopes Wherever the first ones fell.