I come fresh from the street
Fast on my feet
Kinda lean and lazy
Not much meat on my bones
And a whole lot alone
More than a little bit crazy
And the old six-string
Was all I had
To keep my belly still
And for each full hour lesson
I gave
I got a crisp
Ten dollar bill
She was married for seven years
To a concrete castle king
She said
She wanted
To learn to play the guitar
And to hear her children sing
So
I'd show up about once a week
In my faded tight-legged jeans
With a backlog full of hobo stories
And dilapidated dreams
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Full of happy things"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Won't you let me hear you sing?"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Wanna hear you play"
She said
"I
I wanna learn a love song
Before you go away"
So
I tried to teach her
A couple of chords
And an easy melody
But it always turned out
She'd rather listen
To my guitar and me
I could hear her old man
Laughin' in the den
Playin' stud poker with the boys
While I sang so soft
In the living room
Too scared to make much noise
I came one week
And the den was dark
And she met me at the door
And we sat on the couch
And we sang and talked
'til I could not sing no more
The silence kept on buildin'
And her eyes grew much too wide
I could hear both of our heartbeats
But there was no place to hide
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Full of happy things"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Won't you let me hear you sing?"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
I Wanna hear you play"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Before you go away"
Guess
You know what happened
My god
I never been so clean
Yeah
I feel like
I'm workin'
In a hollywood movie
Or livin' out a good bad dream
And all them pin-up girls
In that tinsel world
Never touched me
Like she can
It took another man's wife
In the real world life
To make this boy
A man
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Full of happy things"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Won't you let me hear you sing?"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
I Wanna hear you play"
She said
"I wanna learn a love song
Before you go away"
I guess you know
I stayed