Love and War (11/11/46) - Rilo Kiley

All is fair in love and we’re in love

Now that everybody’s dead we can finally talk

can vanity and happiness co-exist?

All the lovers we’ve taken in direct view of the enemy

And we shift each others body to accept the bullet

And continue the pleasure, the treasures of battle

Its only for the for the wounded and purple hearted

Why must you try to ruin my peace of mind

And they were only words and I never meant them

I never loved you even in my weakness you were fuel for the fire cannon fodder

When my grampa drank, fell and broke his face in two

When the cops arrived he exclaimed i fought in world war two

And then they carried him to a darkened hospital room

And said no modern person here remembers you

And we can’t identify the enemy

And it could be you so it won’t cost you

It only cost me my wife and my job now what

Then my mom and I went to identify the body

and I wanted to see it but she wouldn’t let me

I had to wait for the military cemetary

And when we got there, this is what she said to me

Love and war in heaven and in hell

You get what you deserve you better spend it well

All is fair in love and war and love

Civil world like this it always sells itself