This business of love will never do 
 Not for me and not for you 
 This business of love will never die 
 Not for you and not for I 
 This business of love will never do 
    On a midtown bus at 5pm 
 He and she begin to fight again 
 Knees buckle under and heads are tossed 
 As the bus hit brakes and the words heat up 
 About money time and remembered slights 
 Your career takes away my nights 
 Packed so close and packed so tight 
 Her hissing words like a fuse ignites 
 Him to implode man overboard 
 Undermined he overloads 
 Over all he does and all she owes 
 Sin for sin it's blow for blow 
 As he wages his holy war 
 She just don't want to hear no more 
 Pushes to the rear she pulls the cord 
 And he chases her to the door 
 Got off the bus 
 And then she said   
 This business of love will never do 
 Not for me and not for you 
 This business of love will never die 
 Not for you and not for I 
 This business of love will never do 
 Not for me and not for you   
 I've been adding it up 
 To see where it went 
 The love we shared and the time we spent 
 Now I gotta take stock 
 I gotta get bent 
 This two bit heart is worth about ten cents   
 I've been adding it up 
 To see where it went 
 The love we shared and the time we spent 
 Now I gotta get straight 
 I gotta get bent 
 This two bit heart is worth about ten cents   
 Even though they were together 
 Even though they were the pair 
 And even though you never saw'em apart 
 And you saw them everywhere 
 There was a whole dance floor between them 
 There was an ocean in their bed 
 From the punches pulled 
 And the faces smacked 
 Branded by the words they said 
 But they were drawn by the thorns 
 The dew and the lace 
 As they ran their hands 
 And wet their face 
 In their garden's 
 In a secret place 
 In paradise at Eden's gates 
 But even that couldn't save them 
 From all that came before 
 Two years and nights 
 A thousand fights 
 They were far beyond a cure 
 They got out of bed 
 And then he said   
 This business of love will never do 
 Not for me and not for you 
 This business of love will never die 
 Not for you and not for I 
 This business of love will never do 
 Not for me and not for you   
 I've been adding it up 
 To see where it went 
 The love we shared and the time we spent 
 Now I gotta get straight 
 I gotta get bent 
 This two bit heart is worth about