My Love is a Loneliness

My love is a loneliness It sits just next to greed It comes on quick and wasteful It uses up and leaves My love is an emptiness To hold but never have It's permanently fleeting It runs right through your hands If everyone leaves and everyone dies It's just a question of when If everyone cheats and everyone lies Rather it me than them My love is a loneliness It lives right next to grief A door you only exit A room you only leave My love is a selfishness My love is a thief It comes in quick and quiet It takes more than it needs If everyone leaves and everyone dies It's just a question of when If everyone cheats and everyone lies Rather it me than them If the worst should happen And it will, and will again I will still be standing With loneliness, my friend To start again If the worst should happen And it will, and it will again I will still be standing With loneliness, my friend My love is a loneliness It knows the way of things There are no surprises If everyone leaves and everyone dies It's just a question of when If everyone cheats and everyone lies Rather it me than them If the worst should happen And it will, and it will again I will still be standing With loneliness, my friend To start again