The Constantines

Love in fear

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On the weird winds of Ontario, came worry sailing strange and low. And we laid under the heavy sheets to love to spite the strange winds blowing. To lust with raging lungs. What hangs above when we love in fear? Don't take me to the hospital. Don't tie me to the wires. Just kiss me on a rooftop. It's for us. It's a red light flashing under helicopters of desire. Red light: It's for us.

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by angryrobot

20y ago

I think he uses words like spite, lust and desire to portray the unhealthiness and danger of loving in fear. The thought that love can cure your ills (don't take me to the hospital...just kiss me on the rooftop) is basically the frenzy that a person can wrap themselves in when the fear of losing love (that they most times have already lost or have never had) trumps reason. All the evil in the world is driven by people who mistake love for a possession.

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