Love is a catastrophe   Look what it's done to me   Brought me down here so low   Stranded, nowhere to go      No concentration   Just rerunning conversation   Trying to understand   How I fell into this quicksand      What happens next?   With life I'm unimpressed   Pain like a cutter's knife   Never been lonelier in my life      Who issued the instruction   For this mad act of destruction?   An end to equilibrium   Fate laughs, look what we've done to him      High wind through the trees   Falling November leaves   A weak sun hanging low   Summer seems so long ago      All my former dreams   Tender romantic schemes   Revealed as so naive   To think I could believe      In love as the kindest law   Not as a declaration of war   On my life and sanity   Now I know at last for me   Love is a catastrophe