Love Like A Country Song
By
Robby Richardson & Ellis G. Tilley
[Robby]
It started at a baseball game American classic
She had a blue hat and eyes to match that
I saw her laughing and drinking a tall boy
Puppy dog eyes in hope she drinks down this tall boy
Her beautiful eyes gazed up my way
Rolled in a circle with the clear “give me a break”
I expected her to walk up and ask me to dance
I expected her to want to get buzzed and take a chance
So, it happens to follow your heart...a race that never starts
Her subtle glances fluttered my heart seemed to string me along
Love Like A Country Song
[Ellis]
“Two can play that game” I said in my head
As a blonde bombshell stopped just ahead
Of where me and my friends sat wolf-whistling
Catching the attention of all those around us
Except the blue-eyed beauty, whose head I wanted to turn
So her heart would fill with jealously as she learnt
I was looking at another but instead she just gazed
At the handsome tall boy as he dazed through the game
I expected her this morning to have picked out her finest blouse
For our make believe date at her father’s boathouse
So I could finally hold her in my arms
The night that I have been planning for so long
A date like a country song
[Robby]
Put out my mind continue the drinking game
Headed to a bar over on the west side…the best side
We sang Elton John and some Luke Bryan
Beer in my hand raised to the fan
Circling like cupid overhead
I saw you with your girls and you saw me with my guys
My smile begged to at least give me a try
Come on baby pull me aside let’s take this ride
Throw out the why and take me on for a size I’m quite a surprise
I expected her to walk up and say hi
I expected her to flash me those heartbreak eyes
I expected a game of pool, a dance on a bar stool, a whiskey connoisseur
A woman that could string me along...like
Love Like A Country Song
[Ellis]
And finally I believe I have got through to you
You let me buy you a beer as you undo
The top two buttons of your shirt
I had known all along you were just playing hard to get
That other guy wasn’t a threat, you were always my Juliet
And as you fiddled with a cigarette, I knew
we were writing our own country song
I expected her attention to last all night
I expected maybe she’d be a little more polite
By sticking around, staying by my side
But I knew how she felt from the other side of the room by the flash of her thong
A passionate love like a country song
[Robby]
As the night grew long it was time to say goodbye
My friends pushing me asking myself, “should I”
I took a breath, took a step, stop this pounding in my chest
This is as thick as nervousness gets
“Hello baby I just want to spend a little time with you
Just wanted to know if I could have a little drink with you
If you could give me a wink and see the best of me
You’re so fine it makes sense to me to drink you like Hennessy
So don’t throw away this moment, me and you here to own it”
I expected her to take my hand to the dance floor
I expected her to want just one more
I expected her to say that she missed me and to kiss me
For her hands to grip me…and let us sway
I expected her to want to drink the night away
[Ellis]
But I was left a laughing stock, a complete fool
Lied to by the country songs written only to ridicule
The unlucky in love
The ones who are not eye candy
And as she giggled with her friends skipped away all dandy
I slumped to the ground, crowned with humiliation
Mocked by the voice of Dolly Parton as it played in the bar
She had said to me “oh no no, you are rather bizarre”
And taken the hand of a wannabe rock star.
[Robby]
I expected us to fall madly in love like it was a sign from above
But I was wrong as before she’d gone
She turned to me singing her swan song
No love like a country song
The End