For my lover for my lover Two weeks in a Virginia jail Twenty thousand dollar bail For my lover for my lover And everybody thinks That I'm the fool But they don't get Any love from you The things we won't do for love

I had been hopeful that I would have the time to get closer to you If you wanted me to I feel like crying the more I think about the times that I tried To say the things I was thinking of At the time

Tell your friends not to think aloud Until they swallow Whisper things into my brain Your voice sounds so hollow I am not a leader of men Since I prefer to follow Do you think I could have a drink Since it's so hard to swallow So hard to swallow

You ain't ever coming back to me That's not how things were supposed to be You take my hand just to give it back No other lover has ever done that Can you see me Floating above your head As you lay in bed Thinking about everything That you did not do

I got some good friends that live down the street Got a good looking woman with her arms 'round me Here in a small town, where it feels like home It's the weight that you carry from the the things that you think you want I've got everything I need and

No house on a hill full of life's finer things And I'll tell you right now there's a whole lot that I just can't do So girl, I can't buy you a big diamond ring Oh, but baby, don't think I can't love you I learned the hard way real early in life That

Whenever you look at me I wish I was her You shower me with words made of knives You grace me with your cold shoulder You say it's all in my head And the things I think just don't make sense So where you been then? Don't go all coy Don't turn it round on

I know it's gonna be a good night I think I just met my wife I can't think when you're looking like that Can't breathe when you're moving like that But everything's gonna be alright I think I just met my wife (yeah, I said it) I don't know if I can say

Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me? This is why we can't have nice things, darling Because you break them I had to take them away This is why we can't have nice things, honey This is why we can't have nice things And here's to

Things gonna be alright Things gonna be just fine If love is around Stir it up, the life is made for us Stir it up, tonight we won't give up I know you think that I am over you But I have just better things to do Than crying over you, I really got to