Break in the Cup

David Wilcox (c) 1994

I try so hard to please you, to be the love that fills you up

I try to pour on sweet affection but I think you got a broken cup

Because you can't believe I love you

I try to tell you that there is no doubt

But as soon as I fill you with all I've got

That little break will let it run right out

I cannot make you happy, I'm learning love and money never do

But I can pour myself out till I'm empty

trying to be just who you'd want me to

But I cannot make you happy even though our love is true

for there's a break in the cup that holds love Inside of you

Now I begin to understand you as you explain this fear you feel

It's when you see me fall into that sorrow, it makes you doubt the love is

real.

'cause the lonely wind still blows through me

I turn away so you can't see

But now how could I still be so empty

with all the love that you pour on me.

I guess you cannot make me happy, that's just a money back guarantee

but you can pour yourself out till you're empty

trying to be just who I'd want you to be.

You cannot make me happy, it's the law of gravity

and that break in the cup that holds love, inside of me.

So if you're tempted to rescue me,

drowning in this quicksand up to my neck

Before you grab my hand to save me

Why don't you ask me if I'm finished yet?

Because you cannot make me happy, not when I'm empty inside of me

But you can pull yourself right in here with me

My misery'd love to have your company

We cannot trade empty for empty, we must go to the waterfall

For there's a break in the cup that holds love

a break in the cup that holds love

a break in the cup that holds love

Inside us all.