Love Is A Ship, Love Is A Spell

Love is a ship, built plank by pain

You patch it up, you sail through rain

It creaks, it cracks, but it's your own

It doesn't vanish, it's bone on bone

I've lost too much to trust the sky

Give me wood and rope, not reason why

Love is a spell, not made by hands

It strikes like lightning, not by plans

You don't build it, it builds you

It pulls you in, no map, no clue

I never chose the hearts I claimed

They spoke my name before I came

Spells fade, spells lie. They twist the soul

But a ship? You fight to keep control

You mend the sails, you know the weight

Love's not a trick, it's a chosen fate

I've steered through storms, I've earned the wheel

Don't tell me love's not something real

You think it's real because it breaks

Because it bleeds and bends and aches

But that's the spell, it blinds, it burns

It leaves you raw with every turn

I never asked to fall for you

But here I am. What could I do?

Love is a ship! Love is a spell!

It drags us up! It pulls us down!

You build it strong! You let it swell!

It's storm and flame! It's loss and crown!

So drink to fools who love too well

Love is a ship! Love is a spell!

You think I wanted this?

You think I planned to love you?

No

But you got to choose. I never did

I chose to stay. Isn't that what matters?

And I chose you. Even knowing I'd disappear

Love is a ship, it learns to float

Love is a spell, it grips your throat

One's made by hand, the other's fate

But both arrive a breath too late

And maybe both are true as hell

Love is a ship, love is a spell

So let it sail, or let it bind

We loved the way we knew to find

And whether built or cast or fell

Love is a ship

Love is a spell