Love in 2 Parts Lyrics

there's hope in poetry, comfort in fiction
like the voice of walt whitman, for example.

i have noticed something
you will have noticed it too
we like truth with lies
black with white
we are the virgin and the w****
you will have noticed this too

so i am led to say purely for example, purely for survival
and speaking of course from my own experience
when i'm drunk it's easy
when i'm sober i try not to love you so hard
will not love you so hard
you will have noticed this too,
for you were on the other side.

[interlude]
in a san francisco loft you couldn't pay for
i could feel your heart beat through the floor boards
i waved my hope around like a cheap flag
whose colors had faded
whose emblem was laughable

what is whiskey in the morning but a clear path to the door
what would uncle walt say to the silent floorboard?
hope?
hope