stubborn love

– the lumineers

she’ll lie and steal and cheat, and beg you from her knees

make you think she means it this time

she’ll tear a hole in you the one you can’t repair

but i still love her i don’t really care

when we were young oh oh we did enough

when it got cold ooh ooh we bundled up

i can’t be told ah ah it can’t be done

it’s better to feel pain than nothing at all

the opposite of love’s indifference

so pay attention now i’m standing on your porch screamin out

and i won’t leave until you come downstairs

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

and i don’t blame ya dear for running like you did all these years

i would do the same you best believe

and the highway signs say we’re close, but i don’t read those things anymore

i never trusted my own eyes

when we were young oh oh we did enough

when it got cold ooh ooh we bundled up

i can’t be told ah ah it can’t be done

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

so keep your head up keep your love

http://thelumineers.com/stubborn-love/

Louis de Bernieres

"Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two."

- Louis de Bernieres