Some will call it a love song, honey Lost in the melody, lost in the rhyme Just another song about love gone funny Heard it before a thousand times But it's shameless love that sings the song When it's all been sung and the music ends Tears are only salty water And it's shameless love again. Some say love is an outlaw raven Sun goes down and away he flies To steal the blind man's watch and chain And ask politely for the time Shameless love makes a thief out of me Catch me, chain me to the prison walls I'll rust the chains with salty water Shameless love will set me free Here's my heart and all that's in it Some say roses, and some say thorns Some say I'm a fool to give it Crazy as the moon in a midnight storm It's shameless love that killed the clown Somebody turn that spotlight down Wash his face in salty water Then shameless love abounds Wish you'd been the first to love me Take me to your Texas towered plains We could sleep and dream of one another Far away from the raven's wings And its shameless love makes a dreamer out of me Shameless love is all I feel Tears are only salty water And dreams are only real.