You Get a Love Song

Well, they ain't gonna make a movie

About a couple of fools like us

No one's gonna write a book

About our little love

You don't get your picture on the local front page

For falling in love at a reckless age no no

For saying I do when you're 19

In a hand-me-down dress with a pawn shop ring

For having no money for a honeymoon

Cuz you're saving it up for the baby boom

For knowing a love dies hard when it starts this young

Well, you don't get much - no no

But you get a love song

Well, this Sunday's sermon won't mention

All the work we put into this love

They ain't gonna hang a billboard

Congratulating us

For surviving every rise and fall

For being more hard headed than a wrecking ball no no

For letting me chase a hopeless dream

For giving up on trying to change me

For drinking your way so far down

I almost thought I couldn't pull you out

But knowing the only thing harder than letting go is holding on

Well, you don't get much - no no

But you get a love song

Next time a hurricane comes through

They won't name it after us

And how could you paint a picture

That looked anything like love

The 6 o'clock news don't give a damn

That by the grace of God we worked it out again

For working overtime and living week to week

For letting your dreams fall into me

For being a man with a damn true heart

I'm gonna hold you through the hardest parts

For being a love that will last - even after life is gone

You don't get much - no no

But you get a love song