Harry Chapin - I Want to Learn a Love Song lyrics

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, more than a little bit crazy And 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 You see, 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 about once a week In my faded tight-legged jeans With a backlog full of hobo stories And dilapidated dreams She said, "I wanna learn a love song Full of happy things" She said, "I wannalearn a love song Won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Wanna hear you play" She said, "I, I wanna 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 laughin' in the den Playin' 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 You know, the silence kept on buildin' And her eyes grew much too wide I could hear both of our heartbeats But there was no place to hide She said, "I wanna learn a love song Full of happy things" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Wanna hear you play" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Before you go away" Guess, you know what happened My God, I never been so clean Yeah, I feel like I'm workin' in a Hollywood movie Or livin' 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 wanna learn a love song Full of happy things" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Won't you let me hear you sing?" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Wanna hear you play" She said, "I wanna learn a love song Before you go away" I guess you know, I stayed