I Wanna Learn a Love Song

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 And more than a little bit crazy 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 for 'bout once a week In my faded tight legged jeans With a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams She said, "I want to learn a love song full of happy things" She said, "I want to learn a love song, won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I want to learn a love song, I want to hear you play" She said, "I, I want to 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 laughing in the den, playing 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 building, her eyes grew much too wide And I could hear both of our heartbeats, but there was no place to hide She said, "I want to learn a love song full of happy things" She said, "I want to learn a love song, won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I want to learn a love song, I want to hear you play" She said, "I, I want to learn a love song before you go away" Well, I guess you know what happened, God, I, I never been so clean Yes, I feel like I'm working in a Hollywood movie, or living 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 want to learn a love song full of happy things" She said, "I want to learn a love song, won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I, I want to learn a love song, I want to hear you play" She said, "I want to learn a love song before you go away" I guess you know I stayed (Ooh, ooh, ooh)