The Book of Love

by Peter Gabriel
(originally by The Magnetic Fields)

The book of love is long and boring,
No one can lift the damn thing.
It's full of charts and facts and figures,
And instructions for dancing.

But I....
I love it when you read to me.
And you...
You can read me anything.

The book of love has music in it.
In fact that's where music comes from.
Some of it is just transcendental,
Some of it is just really dumb.

But I...
I love it when you sing to me.
And you...
You can sing me anything.

The book of love is long and boring,
And written very long ago.
It's fill of flowers and heart-shaped boxes,
And things we're all too young to know.

But I...
I love it when you give me things.
And you...
You ought to give me wedding rings.
And I...
I love it when you give me things.
And you...
You ought to give me wedding rings.
And I...
I love it when you give me things.
And you...
You ought to give me wedding rings.
You ought to give me wedding rings.
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This is the song at the end of the last episode of Scrubs, and I totally fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.

I like how it's sweet, but realistic. I mean, come on--"no one can lift the damn thing??" Awesome.

It's a beautiful reminder that we each have our own book of love, and we get to decide which music is in it, and which is just "really dumb."

And some things, we will always be too young to know.

But I know enough to keep reading...