What I can take It will be tested What can break me has a name So when I'm calm Feeling rested There's still a devil at the gate And I have learned That if I let it It will coax my ease away So maybe too many things really matter to me And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything Maybe love is a curse and we'll never be free Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry Just no tragedy please Just no tragedy please If I could read What the cards tell Could I live with what they say Would I just sit there, shuffling And reshuffling Try to fix the deck my way What is this long And painful process Learn to take things as they may So maybe too many things really matter to me And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything Maybe love is a curse and we'll never be free Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry Just no tragedy please Just no tragedy please There's nothing more that I need Just no tragedy