Same

Everything I think I've said before.
A different face, a different name, yeah, sure--
But in the end (and it's the truth)

I like the things I don't know about you yet
I like the fact that we have an expiration date.
It makes it easier to love you,
because I know that I'll lose you.
No guesswork. You'll leave, and I'll be left.

I love you like a child loves her father before she's old enough to know better.
I love you like a child loves a superhero before he's capable of recognizing his faults.
I love you like I love the television shows of my past,
Not because they're all that great but because they're the last vestige of my childhood that remains intact.
I'm homesick for a place that doesn't exist and never did.

I love you like I love my friends, I love you for the things I could just as easily hate you for.
I love you like an illusion, because while I think I love you I know I don't.

Would that I could give my love away, and not make more of it--
Would that I could still the cogs of my heart.
Love is tiresome.