I didn't cheat,

I didn't lie,

So her leaving took me by surprise.

Just a note on the table,

Saying we're through.

At first I went crazy,

So it took me sometime.

But I finally read between the lines.

It's not what I did,

It's what I didn't do.

I didn't tell her,

Each day I loved her.

I took it for granted,

Somehow she knew.

I didn't hold her,

I reached out my arms and I touched you

With soft words I whispered your name

I held your love on the tips of my fingers

But that was as close as I came

My eyes had a vision of sweet lips

Yielding beneath my command

I held you right on the tips of my fingers

But I let you slip right thru my hands

Yes I let you slip right thru my hands

Somebody took you when I wasn't looking

All my friends say, I should leave you alone.

You've got a heart like a stone, And a wonderin' eye.

And I know that they're right.

I can make up my mind, Not to see you again,

But you move through my dreams like the wind,

It's no good to pretend, It won't happen again,

Cause it'll happen again.

Some fools never learn.

Play with the fire,

And your gonna get burned.

Chorus:

Lonely women make good lovers

They all have mercy for good lookin' smooth talkin' men

Lonely women make good lovers

If you got a woman you better treat her just as good as you can

Lots of times a lonely girl will go out on the town

With no thoughts of evil on her mind

She don't try to flat that seat

Lord knows there's something every woman needs

We're here in the dark alone - the three of us again

You and me are lying here with your memory of him

You say I've lost my mind but you say that every time

It's more than jealousy

I feel you holding him just as tight as me

I beg you just one time

Leave him out of this

Don't throw it all away for somebody that you miss

Wish you could want my love as much as you want his

Cold city like the eyes in the subway station

It's ten stories to my desk in the smoggy sky

But after five, I'm headed home to heaven

To an easy world
There ain't nothin like the love of a small town girl

Hot coffee and the sound of her sweet voice callin

Country station on the kitchen radio

That's how I know

theres still a little magic

in this crazy world...