the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on
Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?
God knows there's a heaven.