Love Is Stranger Than Fiction

There are wallsbefore meThere are wallsall around meAnd walls that keep me safeThere are secrets, and strategieshide-outs and cipherssnakes and snipersand tales that make me braveThere are secret doorwayswith secret codesno one seems to knowI've got borders and spiesI've got x-ray eyesand signs that lieand tests that everyonemust satisfyI want to feel the loveI want to take a chancewalk tall in the sunand live a life of romanceBut I can't be sureIf sex is an addictionAnd faith is an afflictionand love is stranger than...love is stranger than...Love is stranger than fictionThere are parapets and batteries,bridges and motes,mythology, biology andscanners and ghoststhere's poison and prophesyand riddles that everyonemust answer by roteI want to feel the love,sing songs in the rainI want to look in your eyesand know you feel the sameBut I can't be sureIf hope is just illusionand ego is delusion,this life is strange confusion'cause love is stranger than fictionI'd learn Morse codeI'd send smoke to the skyI'd take your word as gospelAnd never ask whyI'd hang my hair from the windowleave crumbs in the dustI'd taste a poison appleif I knew I could trustthat you'd touch my heartand set me freekiss my eyes,lift this blindness from mecan you... save me'?Can you save'me...?I've got protocols and firewalls,scripture and verseI'm sheltered from sinbut it only gets worseProtected from the worldso nothing gets inno sign of life,no hope from withinI want to feel the lovebut I can't take the painI want to hide from the sonand not have to explain'cause I'll never be surethat sex is an addictionand faith is an affliction'cause love is stranger than...love is stranger than...Love is stranger than fictionlove is stranger than-love is stranger than-Love is stranger than fiction