Karaoké Ballad of Love & Hate The Avett Brothers

Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate

My vacation's ending

I'm coming home late

The weather was fine and the ocean was great

And I can't wait to see you again

Hate reads the letter and throws it away

No one here cares if you go or you stay

I barely even noticed that you were away

I'll see you or I won't whatever

Love sings a song as she sails through the sky

The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes

And everyone knows it whenever she flies

And also when she comes down

Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street

Every stranger and drifter he greets

And shakes hands with every loner he meets with a serious look on his face

Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow

Carrying with her the good things we know

A reason to live and a reason to grow to trust, to hold, to care

Hate sits alone on the hood of his car

Without much regard to the moon or the stars

Lazily killing the last of a jar of the strongest stuff you can drink

Love takes a taxi a young man drives

As soon as he sees her hope fills his eyes

But tears follow after at the end of the ride 'cos he might never see her again

Hate gets home lucky to still be alive

He screams over the sidewalk and into the drive

The clock in the kitchen says two-fifty-five

And the clock in the kitchen is slow

Love has been waiting patient and kind

Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign

That the one that she cares for who's out of his mind will make it back safe to her arms

Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door

Weary head hung down eyes to the floor

He says, love, I'm sorry and she says, what for

I'm yours and that's it whatever

I should not have been gone for so long

I'm yours and that's it forever

You're mine and that's it forever