[Intro] I used to think the lonely ones Were those with no one there Now I know the loneliest thought Is knowing someday You might not be here [Verse 1] We started out as strangers With nothing much to lose Two separate lives colliding With nothing left to prove Then slowly all your little ways Became the things I knew Coffee in the morning The way the sunlight fell on you Somewhere in the ordinary Without a warning sign Your hand became the one I reached for Your future tangled into mine [Pre-Chorus] Every wall I let you through Was one less wall between Everything I couldn't lose. And everything you mean to me. [Chorus] The cruel irony of love The closer that you get The more there is to lose The more you give your heart away The more there is to bruise The cruel irony of love You finally find the one You can't imagine living without The cruel irony The cruel irony Of Love of Love [Verse 2] You learn the language of their silence Every pause and every glance Which stories make them angry Which old songs still make them dance A jacket hanging by the doorway Their footsteps down the hall Till one day all those little nothings Mean absolutely everything at all And that's when love becomes a wager Nobody remembers making The more beautiful the building The more there is worth breaking [Chorus] The cruel irony of love The closer that you get The more there is to lose The more you give your heart away The more there is to bruise The cruel irony of love You finally find the one You can't imagine living without The cruel irony The cruel irony Of love [Bridge] Knowing the ending We begin Knowing the risk We let them in Knowing the fall We climb above Knowing the cost We call it love [Final Chorus] The cruel irony of love The closer that you get The more there is to lose The more you give your heart away The more there is to bruise The cruel irony of love You finally find the one You can't imagine living without And that's the cruel irony You spend your whole life Trying to find someone You can't imagine living without And if you're lucky You do The cruel irony... The cruel irony... Of love.
