Love Right

Love Right

Seventeen in virgin heat

We parked off the end of the street

Bucket seats ain’t no fun

Still got some things undone

Trying to get our love right

Sure as your first won’t be your last

She put me in her past

I kept trying to hang on

She was all I’d known,

Couldn’t get our love right

I hear she teaches Sunday school

In a church down home

She don’t pray for no rock n’ roll fool

Who’s waking up in some other time zone

She still means a lot to me

Though it wasn’t meant to be

We tried to get our love right

I got this woman friend of mine

We’ve put in 30 years’ time

Got two kids, grown and gone

We’re still here, keepin’ on

Trying to get our love right

Catch a glimpse on a lucky day

Learning each other’s way

Chasing the money, killing the bills

Make out your will

And get your love right

She come from way uptown

Where the living is fine

Maybe it doesn’t have to make sense

That I am hers and she is mine

Some days yes, some days no

You learn how, or you let go

And get your love right

Long time since my Daddy left town

California bound

But in a corner of my mind

He’s still here all the time

Trying to get his love right

You can’t erase your mess

But you can sure change your address

Over that hill the grass is green

And your slate is clean

You try to get your love right

His father’s drunken ghost

Hides behind his eyes

But he made himself a better man

Took me forty years to realize

You do the best you can

Accept and understand

And get your love right

Get your love right

Get your love right