( verses )

blown off mustang doors racing for trophy girls

sometimes lost then i'm set to explode

road tripped the U S A chased by the milky way

yet to have unscrambled the biblical code

sidestepped most'a last breathless decade

for me ta take a laser focused look

didn't find it rolled in a blood drenched mink stole

in crimson rain from a stellar detective book...

no, mister, not the mystery called love...

checked in the shadows 'neath moe hahveez rocks

sliced thin layers of hearts of stone

splayed clean to their charred linguini veins

no fractured desert valentine bones...

surviving the mystery of love

( chorus )

the mystery of love

haunts the penthouse and back alleys...

the mystery of love

won't show its plain jane face...

check around every corner still no clues

yet the mystery of love permeates...

the dirty misery of love at the garden gate

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rescued messages from airtight bottles

tossed from drunken cruise ships sea to quivering sea

checked the dark web from my childhood bunk bed

even the working girls saved nothin' for me

not a spark of cosmic understanding...

down here in "girl next door" potosi, missourieeeee

I wonder wonder who wrote the mystery of love

all that's left...a one way trip to the stars

make that sharp turn at andromeda

then scope out nearest honky tonk bar

( bridge )

ignorance is bliss... far as i can tell

could be cupid's burnished brown arrow..

or drown, mister, in a fiery car crash

at the bottom of the wishing well

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOWWWWAAAAAHHH

( repeat chorus )

hhhaaaaaoooooooooooooaaaaaaahhhhh

mystery, oh mystery my missy...

never got ta kiss ya