No Tragedy Please

What I can take

It will be tested

What can break me has a name

So when I'm calm

Feeling rested

There's still a devil at the gate

And I have learned

That if I let it

It will coax my ease away

So maybe too many things really matter to me

And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything

Maybe love is a curse and we'll never be free

Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry

Just no tragedy please

Just no tragedy please

If I could read

What the cards tell

Could I live with what they say

Would I just sit there, shuffling

And reshuffling

Try to fix the deck my way

What is this long

And painful process

Learn to take things as they may

So maybe too many things really matter to me

And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything

Maybe love is a curse and we'll never be free

Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry

Just no tragedy please

Just no tragedy please

There's nothing more that I need

Just no tragedy