Love Minus Zero / No Limit

Rick Nelson · Rudy the Fifth [Decca] [1971]

(B. Dylan)



My love she speaks like silence

Without ideals of violence

She doesn't have to say she's faithful

Yet she's true, like ice, like fire

People carry roses

Make promises by the hours

My love she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy her.



In the dime stores and bus stations

People talk of situations

Read books, repeat quotations

Draw conclusions on the wall

Some speak of the future

My love she speaks softly

She knows there's no success like failure

And that failure's no success at all.



The bridge at midnight trembles

The country doctor rambles

Bankers, nieces, seek perfection

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring

The wind howls like a hammer

The night blows cold and rainy

My love, she's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing.



My love speaks like silence

Without ideals of violence

She doesn't have to say she's faithful

Yet she's true, like ice, like fire

People carry roses

Make promises by the hours

My love she laughs like the flowers

Valentines can't buy her...