What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
(The Wedding Version)
(2004)

Come to the table darling
Sit with me a while
Break this bread and drink this wine
And kiss me with your smile
This is what's been given us
This is all enough
This is what we talk about when we talk about love

Your eyes are an ocean
Your tear trails a course
This world's lost its purpose
But we're safe on these shores
Let them play with knives and bullets
Set their hammers and serve
But this is what we talk about when we talk about love

We've heard about a mother
And we've heard about her son
We've heard about the carpenter
The good work that's been done
Not a cop, or judge, or doctor
Just a life, that was enough
Well what'd you want to talk about when you talk about love?

A lonely king he prophesies
In rhetoric and rhyme
He fights to be understood
He'd kill to be sublime
He seeks an end to songs and chains
Affections undeserved
But he don't know what he talks about when he talks about love

We can go to the philosopher
We can go to the sage
We can go to the Nietzchean at the end of the age
We can ask this question of them
If they say "you've got some nerve":
Well what'd you want to talk about when you talk about love?

There's a tower burning brightly
In the middle of the sea
It was there before the world was made
By the shores of Galilee
What once was below us
It now rises above
This is what we talk about when we talk about love
This is what we talk about when we talk about love