Would you believe there are still guys who travel from town to town with the ol’ love ’em and leave ’em motto etched in their minds? This is something I sang about a few years back in a song called “Lightning Love”.
As you know, lightning love strikes quickly and never in the same place twice.
And it almost always leaves a negative, indelible mark. Guys who take advantage of girls and their more loving and trusting ways are like this. I’d say most guys in America are guilty of this. Unfortunately I was that way back in my life as a full-time road musician. It’s not something I like to admit, but I don’t want to sing my song as a hypocrite.
If we lived in a world where no one got hurt by our indiscretions, then none of this would matter. It would be pointless to point it out, to sing about it.
But the truth is…many get hurt. Some (unborn children for example) even die as a result of this kind of selfishness. So, I hope you’ll listen to this song and…if you’re a guy, stop doing this sort of thing. Respect the ladies. And if you’re a girl, understand you’re worth so much more than the love ’em and leave ’em kind of a guy. You deserve real love. You don’t deserve…
Lightning Love
Blue sky backdrop…
A million miles on the blacktop…
What can possibly save him now?
Greener pastures…
He broke her heart when he past hers.
Love stopped; she never quite knew how.
Lightning love can spark the coldest hearts,
And he filled the empty parts with lightning love,
Oh but lightning love can burn the strong house down,
And so they ran him out of town for lightning love.
Beer signs…neon…
What road could he now be on?
Shut down; letting the days go by.
Time creeps…world turns…
The headaches and the heartburns…
Drive on; dying inside the lie!
chorus
Endeavor to be debonair,
Gregarious, extraordinaire…
But still there’s really nothing there?
So nebulous with savoir faire!
Blue sky backdrop…
A million miles on the blacktop…
What can possibly save him now?
© 2002 Copyright Tony Funderburk
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