Don’t Turn Your Back On Love

Lyrics

Black hole hips, she looks like some sort of insect Buzzing across the floor toward me I can't think when she's looking at me with those green eyes Shining on me like floodlights way at the back of New York City She said she'd take me down to Kokomo We went to Kokomo, Indiana Where she told me her real name was Diana At the gas station Something about her reminds me of the United States Sprawling across the West in all her glory and imagination Highway 25 divides the Great Plains from the Rocky Mountains At Colorado Springs - that's a coal mining town Some lady wrote America the Beautiful sitting up on top of Pike's Peak up there Looking way way down, way way down And I don't know how it happened but here we are on the dance floor together After all these years And I know her real name now, I know who wrote America the Beautiful And I hear a voice whispering in my ear Saying "Don't turn your back on love No don't turn your back on love, you idiot You fool, oh don't you do it And I may not want to go over to your house whenever you want me to come over to your house But that's no reason to turn your back on love." Heartbreak is my room-mate now, we live together We share the rent, we have long conversations before we go to sleep in bed at night Long conversations And I go out I'm on the street, inside the street In New York City or in Boston or Chicago whatever city I happen to be in at the time I'm on the same street Heartbreak is my room-mate Yes it's hard, of course it's hard, it's supposed to be hard But I can still hear her voice, it's calling It's calling, calling but it's whispering, whispering in my ear Saying "Don't turn your back on love No, don't turn your back on love, my love" What am I supposed to do? Say "no"? Something about her reminds me of the United States Sprawling across the West in all her glory and imagination She spans the cities and the deserts and the forests and the mountains She brings it all together in one big lovely package Oh baby Oh I'll never turn my back on love Not while you're around to whisper in my ear After all these years Diana, is that what it was? Don't forget me, no don't forget me I can't forget you, how could I ever forget you? Oh don't forget me, don't turn your back on love I won't turn my back on love I can't forget you, how could I forget you? (aside) That's it, that's all