The Ballad of Love and Hate

C                        G           C
Love writes a letter and sends it to hate.
   F                     G           C
My vacations ending. I'm coming home late.
    F           G            C         Am
The weather was fine and the ocean was great
      C             G        F
and I can't wait to see you again.

C                         G          C
Hate reads the letter and throws it away.
F                         G          C
"No one here cares if you go or you stay.
  F           G            C         Am
I barely even noticed that you were away.
     C             G        F
I'll see you or I won't, whatever."

C                        G                  C
Love sings a song as she sails through the sky.
      F                       G          C
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes.
     F       G           C         Am
And everyone knows it whenever she flies,
    C    G              F
and also when she comes down.

C                          G                  C
Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street.
F                  G          C
Every stranger and drifter he greets.
    F                 G     C        Am
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
       C       G           F
with a serious look on his face.

C                        G           C
Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow.
F                     G              C
Carrying with her the good things we know.
  F         G          C         Am
A reason to live and a reason to grow.
   C         G        F
To trust. To hope. To care.

C                      G           C
Hate sits alone on the hood of his car.
  F                        G             C
Without much regard to the moon or the stars.
F      G           C         Am
Lazily killing the last of a jar
         C       G             F
of the strongest stuff you can drink.

C                    G         C
Love takes a taxi, a young man drives.
   F                    G              C
As soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes.
    F            G             C          Am
But tears follow after, at the end of the ride,
          C           G        F
'cause he might never see her again.

C                        G        C
Hate gets home lucky to still be alive.
     F                           G        C
He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive.
    F            G            C          Am
The clock in the kitchen says two fifty  five,
        C            G           F
And the clock in the kitchen is slow.

C                      G           C
Love has been waiting, patient and kind.
      F                      G            C
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign,
         F            G                C          Am
That the one that she cares for, who's out of his mind,
     C            G           F
Will make it back safe to her arms.

C                         G            C
Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door.
F                G           C
Weary head hung, eyes to the floor.
   F               G           C               Am
He says "Love, I'm sorry", and she says, "What for?
    C                G      F
I'm yours and that's it, whatever.

  F               G    C           Am
I should not have been gone for so long.
      C              G     F
I'm yours and that's it, forever.
       C               G     F
You're mine and that's it, forever."