I used to spend nights
Trying to save you
In another life time
Now I know that one girl's lost
Can be, can be another boy's found
I used to try to drag you from the wreckage
From the ecstasy of dust
Now I am too busy saving myself
So we drink one, drink one, to our health
This matter of love
Can never be destroyed only altered
From solid to liquid to steam
We are changing our compounds, we are
Rearranging our elements
We are ionizing our dreams
I used to want to make you
Want more each time
From all of your nine lives
You wanted a new car
And I, I wanted the studios to call
I used to try to carry you
From the smoke and glass
From the needles of despair
Now I am too busy saving myself
So we drink one, drink one, to our health
This matter of love
Can never be destroyed only altered
From sweet to bitter to ambivalence
It's good to know from this distance
I still care, that I still care
For the ones
That I once would have died for
This matter of love
Can never be destroyed only altered
From ocean to iceberg to a thin fog
Never present long
Always changing, changing your form
Nothing to hold onto, and nothing, nothing to escape from
This matter of love can never be destroyed only altered
Altered yet unaltered ... Still matter
You, still matter to me
