Lyric discussion by BobTheRhino 

Cover art for Book of Love lyrics by Jimmy Eat World

The lyrics shown here are slightly inaccurate. I listened to the song several times and referred to both the lyrics shown here and the lyrics in the lyric booklet included with the album (which was almost totally accurate, but actually wrong on a few minor things such as having "call it like it is" in place of "say it like it is"), and this is what I determined the lyrics to be:

I wasn't worried about the small things Tried to bury what they might or could have meant And as far away as you could get As distant as you'd ever been You'd still love me

The book of love is fiction Written by the loneliest who sing Thinking they're doing their best Learning things they should forget Until the end

So maybe we should plan, then Of who will go, and who will stay, and when Until one of us can say it like it is... You've already made your own bed

Can you tell me what just happened? Where's my girlfriend with her engine pinned redline I pick you up on a Wednesday night Go off on a secret ride Like we were kids Will we be alright? I have never doubted it before, my friend Are they ever coming back again? Those feelings that we started with? I'll give it time

But maybe we should plan, then Of who will go, and who will stay, and when Until one of us can call it like it is... You've already made your own bed

I deserve the truth But I'm so afraid of what it'd do Finally seeing us for how it really is I've been alone, just never known it

So maybe we should plan, then Of who will go, and who will stay, and when Until one of us can say it like it is... You've already made your own bed

I deserve the truth But I'm so afraid of what it'd do Finally seeing us for how it really is I've been alone, just never known it