Richard McGraw

Following Love Lyrics

Cannot find the company

To keep this heart alive

It’s standards and requirements

Are of the strictest kind

And the local girls resistant’s

Does not help me with my efforts

In fact I think they’re here to torture me tonight

It’s a fine night for torture

I’ll supply the weapons

Like these old high school tools

That tells me that I need her

And this phonebook treatment

That tells me not to call her anymore

And all of my friends are rock star scholars

And they all seem to agree

That there is no love or comfort

In the presence of plain company

And though I question their intentions

And their claims to be scholarly

The half truths ring like full truths to me

And if I seem dissatisfied

With Mrs. Read Between the Lines

She’s number 45

Or so numbers are labels they are given by angels

No that’s not a blessing, no that’s not a blessing in disguise

Like these old high school tools

That tells me that I need her

And these football buddies

That tell me to go get her

And the oldest of men in me

That speaks to angelically

He asks her: “is it worth the effort”

And the time I’ll spend alone with a woman I can not see

Can be chalked up to the youngest or the oldest of men in me

Yes I despise my coming to or falling on these notions

It’s the life that stabs and stings of her perfection

She was close enough to perfection

You can check the records

She was not 17, she was not hanging off grocery store machines

Like these old high school tools

That tells me that I need her

And this phonebook treatment

That tells me not to call her anymore