Crime is like love.
How can we prove
The criminal did it again and again,
And loved us, with love that doesn’t end?
The brash detective proves
That even a lover, a lover who loves,
In one place and one time,
Even as they loved, committed a crime,
Kissing us falsely under a tree.
Prove it, detective. She loved me.
She came to me of her own free will,
To be loved and love. Prove every thrill
Of the mood by that shadowy lake
She felt freely, and all for my sake.
Every sigh she made in the grass
Was for me, and the mood did not pass
When she went home to rest.
Her restlessness was love at its best.
Prove her lack of peace proved
She was mine, and I was the one she loved,
And when we met and kissed again,
It was love which did not want to end,
Whether we kissed on the mountain or by the low lake,
And she tenderly kissed me only for my sake.
And when she didn’t love me that one time,
Can you prove, that this once, love wasn’t like crime?
That she wasn’t guilty, and love didn’t pass
Away, and when later, she kissed me in the grass,
And she told me she was still in love with me
It was love that was the same as when we kissed by the sea?