Swords and pens and tears and blood
  Emotion, demotion and skin that's so tough
  If I can live through this then that is enough
  Learn and earn devotion and trust
  
  Love is the subject and nothin' else nothin' else
  Life is the course love is the subject
  Notes and jokes and follies so cruel
  Elation, cessation and pain, that's the rule
  Find me later face down in the pool
  Prop me up for lesson number two
  
  I eat and sleep and culture my person
  Measure up to the yardstick she's using
  Punch drunk stars like sparks in my vision
  Paradise is something inhuman when
  
  Love is the subject and nothin' else nothin' else
  
  So much of this is quarrel
  Clenching of the teeth
  It's stormy on the surface
  Let me underneath
  
  Walk and talk and give up and talk on
  My body hangs 'round this heart like a jacket
  My stomach sinks lower preparing for worry
  I'm so ready to feel good in a hurry when
  
  Love is the subject and nothin' else nothin' else
  Life is the course love is the subject