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