A Love You Can't Survive

Now, I remember the promise I gave you
The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer
As we sat holding hands in the Lamb & Flag Tavern
I swore "I’ll be back for you same time next year"
But I killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight
I tried to hold back, but he taunted me so
5 years till they freed me from that Brazzaville prison
Out of boredom or pity, I never will know
Now I bear the stain
The scar on my name
And I never can go back again
And there’s a love, a love you can’t survive
There’s a love, a love you can’t survive
And it tears you up inside
There’s a love you can’t survive
I sailed my boat into New Orleans harbor
Tied up at the jetty, as bold as you please
With a half-ton of Charlie built in to the bulkhead
Right under the noses of all them police
Now here I sit in my house on the mountain
I'm king of the clouds and all I survey
There’s women who are willing, and the law can’t touch me
But yours is the one face that won’t go away
And I bear the stain
The scar on my name
And I never can go back again
And there’s a love, a love you can’t survive
There’s a love, a love you can’t survive
And it tears, it tears you up inside
And it tears you up inside
There’s a love, there's a love you can’t survive
There's a love oh you can't survive