Rachael & Vilray - Hate Is the Basis (of Love) (Live)

Rachael & Vilray perform "Hate Is the Basis (of Love)," from the album 'I Love a Love Song!,' out now on Nonesuch Records: rachaelandvilr...
HATE IS THE BASIS (OF LOVE)
People long to find true love,
They’re searching every day.
They wonder at the mystery of
The fire that never burns away.
“Perhaps,” they say, “the spark that sets it
Springs from the things lovers like!”
On your first date, I advocate,
That you focus on all the many things you both hate…
Hate is
The basis
Of love.
Despising
Is the wise thing
For seeing if you see things eye to eye.
Imagine hating raisins,
And now everything has raisins,
’Cause you fell for a raisin-crazy fool.
And in your shared apartment
There lives a purple carpet,
’Cause guess what? Mr. Raisin loves that too.
And every hat he wears is apt to irritate,
’Cause every hat he owns is a hat you hate.
If only you’d been straighter,
Said, “Honey I’m a hater.
If you wanna know what floats my boat, then ask what gets my goat!”
’Cause hate is
The basis of love.
Hate is the basis!
Hate is the basis
Of love!
Detesting’s the best thing!
Detesting’s the best thing
For knowing if you’re going all the way.
Oh baby I hate tourists,
The smug, the wrong, the purists,
Oh mushrooms, melons, licorice as well.
But when I come back home I’m safe from all of them,
’Cause my sweetheart wants even less to do with them.
She pets me and she praises,
She scratches every itch.
But when she wants to win my heart, she listens while I bitch,
’Cause hate is
The basis…
Hate is the basis!
Hate is the basis!
Hate is the basis
Of love!
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