You said you lied 'cause you didn't want to hurt her You chose to cheat but now you don't want to lose her You don't treat her right but you don't want to see her Happy with somebody else I don't understand They don't seem to match Could you tell me Is love really this ironic? 'Cause with love, you learn how to cry With love, you learn how to lie With love, you forget how to love yourself Before you love anyone else And that's the mystery in all history The irony of love You knew you loved her but you let her go She gave her all, she gave her heart but you chose the other girl I don't understand They don't seem to match Could you tell me Is love really this ironic? 'Cause with love, you learn how to cry With love, you learn how to lie With love, you forget how to love yourself Before you love anyone else And that's the mystery in all history The irony of love Ooh woah-oh, ooh woah-oh Love never hurts Love never fails It's the closest thing to magic So if it hurts If it fails maybe it wasn't love in the first place I know it'll take me some time to get it How something so beautiful could end up being so destructive? I don't understand They don't seem to match Could you tell me Is love really this ironic? 'Cause with love, you learn how to cry With love, you learn how to lie You learn to love, you forget how to love yourself Before loving anyone else And that's the mystery (and that's the mystery) In all history The irony of love The irony of love Ooh woah-oh, ooh woah-oh Ooh woah-oh, ooh woah-oh Love

From the point he gazed, from the choice was made But walk the cave or the shore The oily cave seemed to breathe on him from gravestone jaws His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin Somewhere a blue eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the gray cave floor But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort So with coin on hand his joy came back when ordered to take the shore Why on earth, as he wandered the warmth am I obeying this coin Turn your life on the flip of this coin Turn upside, a choice you'd normally avoid And promise me you'll follow what it says Whatever it says Again, walk within the trusted beach or swim the swell of the sea And again the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he He'd never learnt to skill of swimming, it never occurred to be very easy And again he winced as he flipped his coin and it twirled to his feet How is this sane? He blamed the coin now aiming for the waves As he hesitated at the swirl of water that now raged and rained Blue eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray Blue eyed girls, he should have been acquainted with But for shouting and flailing Turn your life on the flip of this coin Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid And promise me you'll follow what it says Whatever it says He finally slugs it back to land feeling chewed up and foolish Empties his pockets on the sand spewing a pool each Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be So he says, why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please To be honest little fellow, I'll tell you I was just as afraid as you But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new And I got a bit scared about the fate of my baby son's future So I invented a reason to see whether you could ever make do As soon as you appeared behind that rock looking angry at me I soon realized what a hell of a man you've ended up being I knew you'd worked out how to swim which I hadn't had in me And I stand as a companion of you proudest a man has ever been Turn your life on the flip of this coin Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid And promise me you'll follow what it says Whatever it says

From the get-go, I knew this was hard to hold Like a crash, the whole thing spun out of control Oh, on a wire, we were dancing Two kids, no consequences Pull the trigger without thinking There's only one way down this road It was like a time bomb set into motion We knew that we were destined to explode And if I had to pull you out of the wreckage You know I'm never gonna let you go We're like a time bomb Gonna lose it, let's defuse it Baby, we're like a time bomb But I need it, wouldn't have it any other way Well, there's no way out of this, so let's stay in Every storm that comes also comes to an end Oh, resistance is useless Just two kids stupid and fearless Like a bullet shooting the lovesick There's only one way down this road (come on) It was like a time bomb set into motion We knew that we were destined to explode And if I had to pull you out of the wreckage You know I'm never gonna let you go We're like a time bomb Gonna lose it, let's defuse it Baby, we're like a time bomb But I need it, wouldn't have it any other way Let me see those hands! Got my heart in your hands Like a time bomb ticking It goes off; we start again When it breaks, we fix it I've got your heart in my hands Like a time bomb ticking We should know better But we won't let go It was like a time bomb set into motion We knew that we were destined to explode And if I had to pull you out of the wreckage You know I'm never gonna let you let me go We're like a time bomb Gonna lose it, let's defuse it Baby, we're like a time bomb But I need it, wouldn't have it any other way