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The Book of Love (2:41)

Cover of 69 Love Songs (disc 1)

From 69 Love Songs (disc 1) and 7 other releases

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The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing

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  • EdgeLike

    peeps be mad that gabriel took the irony out of the song and actually made it a love song.

    9 May 3:58am Reply

  • Cheezdude

    "Some of it is just transcendental. Some of it is just really dumb."

    7 May 4:43am Reply

  • Cheezdude

    notquitegonzo THIS IS NOT A PETER GABRIEL ORIGINAL

    7 May 4:43am Reply

  • b060113last

    Lyrically brilliant. Musically lame.

    12 Feb 12:48am Reply

  • notquitegonzo

    I love this more than the PG original (and THAT is something crazy good)

    9 Feb 7:46pm Reply

  • notquitegonzo

    I JUST FUCKING MELTED. I am NOT even typing this...

    9 Feb 7:44pm Reply

  • kaitlinandstuff

    What do you even write as a comment on this ridiculously incredible song? Am I doing this right?

    3 Nov 2012 Reply

  • kikikirsche

    ***

    12 Oct 2012 Reply

  • robertfjr

    Hats off, Merrit.

    5 Oct 2012 Reply

  • YOMOTHAINLAW

    susan boyle's cover is better

    2 Oct 2012 Reply

  • target-uk

    Just such beautiful lyrics. :’)

    16 Aug 2012 Reply

  • GreenKamo

    Ahhh, lovely

    9 Jul 2012 Reply

  • KConn3711

    love the vibe and mood of this track

    3 Apr 2012 Reply

  • semionato

    you oughta give me wedding rings -- i couldn't believe in my ears when i listened to that for the first (and the second, and the third et al.) time. TOO BEAUTIFUL.

    20 Feb 2012 Reply

  • gilliananne

    Gosh! What a voice x

    14 Feb 2012 Reply

  • CleanSpoon

    dat voice

    13 Feb 2012 Reply

  • j_brodu

    Gabriel's version sucks, Nataly Dawn's version sucks. wish people would stop saying obviously inferior covers of songs from this album are better than the originals. (3) -- seriously.

    22 Jan 2012 Reply

  • Captain_Waffles

    Peter Gabriel's version manages to miss the point and suck out this song's soul at the same time. This version, however, is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded <3

    12 Dec 2011 Reply

  • dufflesj

    the Peter Gabriel version was horrible, this on the other hand is amazing.

    29 Aug 2011 Reply

  • pabulous

    the peter gabriel version was an abomination, but i guess that fits in well with how scrubs ended up

    16 Jun 2011 Reply
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