super sad true love song

[betteroffbad]

I once had a love that was more or less fine
but since I was 17 I thought it was divine
that was you if you remember maybe you don't I don't know your mind
I put a lot of effort into getting our souls and hands entwined

you were a storm of quotes from movies I had never seen
i was a clumsy allusion to a book by Howard Bloom
you were a sweetly bad haircut and a button-studden jacket, jean
we danced by jumping up and down in the middle of the room

youth is a cloud that no man can bust
it's normal when you're young to prefer the look of love to the look of rust
while strumming my guitar one day in a phonebooth in the midwest
I thought about you and wondered if it was really all for the best

you were a babyface killer a dream of literate dust
i shook my head but I smiled when I shook my head
ah but ours was only ever a wry allusion to lust
i'm sorry if that was something you didn't know alread