The Book of Love

The book of love is long and boring

and no one can lift the damn thing

it's full of charts and fats and figures

and instructions for dancing

but I, I love it when you read to me

and you, You can read me anything

The book of love has music in it

in feet that's where music comes from

some of it's just transcendental

some of it's just really dumb

but I, I love it when you sing to me

and you, you can sing me anything

the book of love is long and boring

and written very long ago

it's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes

and things we're all too young to know

but I, I love it when you give me things

and you, you ought to give me

wedding rings

(Word Music, Peter Gabriel)

(From Shall we Dance?)