Lyrics for The Ballad of Love and Hate as interpreted by Thrilliam

The Ballad of Love and Hate Lyrics
Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate:
"My vacation,s ending, I'm coming home late
The weather was fine and the ocean was great
And I can't wait to see you again"

Hate reads the letter and throws it away
"No one here cares if you go or you stay
I barely even noticed that you were away
I'll see you or I won't, whatever"

Love sings a song as she sails through the sky
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes
And everyone knows it whenever she flies
And also when she comes down

Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street
Every stranger and drifter he greets
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
With a serious look on his face

Love arrives safely with suitcase in toe
Carrying with her the good things we know
A reason to live and a reason to grow
To trust, to hold, to care

Hate sits alone on the hood of his car
Without much regard to the moon or the stars
Lazily killing the last of a jar
Of the strongest stuff you can drink

Love takes a taxi, a young man drives
As soon he sees her hope fills his eyes
But tears follow after at the end of the ride
Because he might never see her again

Hate gets home lucky to still be alive
He screams over the sidewalk and into the drive
The clock in the kitchen says two-fifty-five
And the clock in the kitchen is slow

Love has been waiting patient and kind
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign
That the one that she cares for who's out of his mind
Will make it back safe to her arms

Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door
Weary head hung down, eyes to the floor
He says, "Love, I'm sorry," and she says, "What for?
I'm yours and that's it, whatever
I should not have been gone for so long
I'm yours and that's it, forever
Your mine and that's it, forever"

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alotlikepepsi
10-11-2007

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Amazing song. The lyrics are so deep and the music pulls it together amazingly.

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LifeisAsong
10-15-2007

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Im not sure if i'm right but love and hate are together and maybe hes is trying to say without love there isn't anything but hate....sounds redundant....i saw seth sing this in concert it was definatley one of the best..it really silenced the crowd completely, and everyone was like hanging on for the next line...it was incredible

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TiO
10-14-2008

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for me this has alot of meaning... i have had ALOT of struggles this past year. and hate has totally taken over my heart. Slowly letting love back in my heart.
i know that i'll always have hate but if i learn to love myself and life it will all heal...
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!!

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Natfan
11-16-2008

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The Taxi Cab driver is and Interesting little tangent, eh? I'd Like to know more about HIM! But, Yeah...It's great that Love and hate are Together "forever".....Still curious about the cab drive though......The Avett Brothers are the Effin SHEEIT!

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rloyd
12-27-2008

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The taxi driver line is pretty simple. When someone witnesses an act of love or experiences love its joyful and all that but when its over theres fear it will never happen again.

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DMV666
12-31-2008

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it's about always returning to one person. no matter how much they screw up, you can leave them and be with other people, but in the end you return to them.
i hate this song.

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rloyd
01-04-2009

Rated -1 
I think you missed it DMV. LifeisAsong got it right. Without love there is only hate. But love can overcome hate. Nice try tho.

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Nickdude6
02-28-2009

Rated +1 
Actually, I like DMV's interpretation

who are you to say he/she got the song meaning wrong.


you don't know. No one does.


Songs have different meanings to different people, which
is what makes them so awesome in the first place

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phisherofsouls
05-17-2009

Rated +1 
Love is bound to hate and Hate is bound to love and they are bound together and without one there is no other.

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robertgrumbles
07-28-2009

Rated +2 
There's a lot of meanings to this song to me. This song can definitely take on a lot of meanings for different people.

1. Most of the time you can love and hate the same person. Love is a powerful feeling and brings with it other powerful feelings. Many times you can love someone but hate the things they do or the things they do to you. Sometimes the feelings of love or hate can completely take over, as is the case at the beginning of the song where love has been on vacation.

2. Love and hate is contageous. If someone has positive energy (like whoever got into the cab), that energy can spread to others and brighten their day. If there is negative energy (like there is in some poorer neighborhoods like the one described in the song) it is also contageous and spreads hate.

3. This song is a metaphor for an actual relationship where one person (hate) is behaving recklessly without regard or feeling for the other person, but then recognizes the error of his ways and asks for forgivenness. The other person (love) forgives him unconditionally.

4. Love is unconditional and hate can be beaton.

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