there s got to be someone here tonight who can explain to me how shadows can also shed a light how they can outshadow what happened between us and outline our shadows in the burned ground beneath us i need to be explained to over and over how a broken heart is not the end of the world cause the end of the world is bigger than love i was in washington d c for the election and when they announced the results i left the procession content in the world s direction tried to call you for an estimation of the distance to the star constellations or any explanation of how a broken heart is not the end of the world cause the end of the world is bigger than love and it s bigger than an iceberg than the plume of a geyser and it s bigger than the spider floating in your cider and it s bigger than the stock market or the loose change in your pocket than the flatbush avenue target and their pharmacy department and it s bigger than our problems and our inability to solve them from coney island to harlem to the end of the world and back again  how a broken heart is not the end of the world cause the end of the world is bigger than love