Love Is Greed

We want a love, a love for us

We want a selfless love that we can always say we trust, oh

Love has always been a mockery

Of those in love and scared to be lonely

Don't want to love, don't want to hurt

If all that loneliness requires just another's comfort

Better off being all on your own

There's a beauty in being alone

Today we're arguing it's not worth making

Another person as just yours for the taking

All your hoping and praying

Won't do more than saying that

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

It's almost taken me

But now I can see

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

A selfish little need

You follow or you lead

If we really love ourselves

How do you love somebody else?

A love to us, a love to them

It's just a history repeating itself time and time again

Love is not a veil to hide your voids

All this talk of love just turns to noise

So you want love, a love so tough

That even all its truths don't seem as though they're adding up, oh

Haven't you already had enough?

What's this suffering remind you of?

Someday we'll all agree it's not worth making

Another person as yours just for the taking

All your hoping and praying

Won't do more than saying that

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

It's almost taken me

But now I can see

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

A selfish little need

You follow or you lead

If we really love ourselves

How do you love somebody else?

A love all gone is just another story

What's gone sour once was glory, glory, oh

If it's romance you want, well, ask for it then

"Honey could you put your arms around me so

Tell me things about you that I wouldn't know

And tell me that you love me like you do

And maybe I will too"

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

It's almost taken me

But now I can see

Love, love, love

Love is just greed

A selfish little need

You follow or you lead

If we really love ourselves

How do you love somebody else?