Please

So you never knew love

Until you crossed the line of grace

And you never felt wanted

Till you had someone slap your face

So you never felt alive

Until you'd almost wasted away

You had to win, you couldn't just pass

The smartest ass at the top of the class

Your flying colors, your family tree

And all your lessons in history

Please, please, please get up off your knees

Please, please, please, please, yeah

So you never knew

How low you'd stoop to make that call

And you never knew

What was on the ground till they made you crawl

So you never knew

That the heaven you keep, you stole

Your Catholic blues, your convent shoes

Your stick-on tattoos now they're making the news

Your holy war, your northern star

Your Sermon on the Mount from the boot of your car

Please, please, please get up off your knees

Please, yeah, please, please, leave me out of this, please

So love is hard

And love is tough

But love is not

What you're thinking of

September, streets capsizing

Spilling over down the drains

Shard of glass, splinters like rain

But you could only feel your own pain

October, talk getting nowhere

November, December, remember

We just started again

Please, please, please get up off your knees, yeah

Please, please, please, please, ah

So love is big

Is bigger than us

But love is not

What you're thinking of

It's what lovers deal

It's what lovers steal

You know I've found it hard to receive

'Cause you, my love

I could never believe