Key: A major
Verse 1
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What do we do with love,
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sweet love?
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What do we do with love?
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We put it on a plinth and pray
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We tell our children it's the finest
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We dress it up in jewel clothes
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and strip it down to naked flesh.
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We make it sacred, make it powerful,
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destructive, pure and fresh
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What do we do with love, sweet love?
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What do we do with love?
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We melt it down and pour it into
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We terrify our kids with foul abuse
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We glorify its use to tame the
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We make it slowly, make it rough,
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we make it twice a week at least
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What do we do with love,
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What do we do with love
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We put it on
TV and
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We make it jealous, make it tragic
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We pump it up till it is bigger than
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And watch in disbelief as it explodes
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and fills a thousand graves
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What do we do with love, sweet love?
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What do we do with love?
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We use it, we use it, we screw it up
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What do we do with love, sweet love?
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What do we do with love?
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We shove it down the throats of anyone who feels a bit,
a bit morose
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We wield it to break down the walls
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We use it to gain access
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To the flesh that makes us ache with lust
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We use it to convince ourselves
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We're more than skin, bone and dust
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What to do with love, sweet love?
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What do we do with love?
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We paint it, rhyme it, put it in a song
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We make it into crosses,
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We wound and maim it with attention
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Revive it skillfully
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To do cool tricks at our peckin' commands
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A do -do with love, sweet love
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A do -do with love
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We make it, we fake it
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We waste it all
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A do -do with love, sweet love
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A do -do with love
you
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