Love Minus Zero/No Limit Judy Collins

My love, she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn't have to say, she's faithful
Yet she's true like ice like fire

People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her

In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall

Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows, there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all

The cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge

Statues made of match sticks
Crumble into one another
My love winks, she doesn't bother
She knows too much to argue or to judge