I Can't Put You Down (You're My Favourite Book)

I like to read you every day
I like to turn you page by page
And trace the zig zag pathways that you took
And I can't put you down my love 'cause you're my favourite book

I know there's nobody else like me
Who reads your writing so perfectly
That's asking to be heard and understood
And I can't put you down my love 'cause you're my favourite book

And I'm falling into a mystery here
It seems that you loved someone once very dear
And that chalice still turns in the core of your heart
It searches and signs and it flusters and sparks
It hurts and it burns, it never dies down
It hits you and twists you and flays you around

And you measure it, live with it, curse it and cringe
You have to walk round it and talk on its fringe
You hide in its shadow and rage at its crimes
Your text is so full of it line after line
And I can't put you down my love, 'cause you're my favourite book

And I see you afraid when the others can see
Your lips easily lie to distract or mislead
And you cover your eyes with a veil and a veil
Then your pen is misshapen your colours are pale
And your heart it is aching for the things you can't do
You're timid and shaking in your fear of the truth

But a chapter is closing a new one begins
I race to the finish to find how it ends
And I'm saved and I'm damned in the time that it took
And I can't put you down love, you're my favourite book

Let me translate you word for word
Into a new language I've learned
To love and be loved in return for yourself
And I can't put you down my love, I'll leave you off the shelf