Love is an Equation. Scholar of Natural Sciences, 1880 by Carl Spitzweg . Love is an Equation. With every new friendship, and all its entice, Love doesn’t decrease at all, it just multiplies, With every passing of breath, in that ending demise, Life doesn’t cease at all ; it’s just a compromise. (chorus) Love is an equation, A moment of sudden elation, The pause before persuasion. A catch of breath before it calls. * When we fall again in love, even not young at all, We be as youthful lovers, when love it comes to call, And it may be many reasons, and maybe any cause, The hunger it never ceases, it’s just a long, lonely pause. (chorus) For love it is an equation, A moment of sudden elation, The pause before persuasion. A catch of breath before it calls. * If we are waiting answers, like a train before it calls, We could be waiting forever, like a spoiled expectant...