Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song On Love, artist - Deacon Blue.
Date of issue: 05.03.2020
Song language: English
On Love |
In the early years he spent a lot of time with his grandparents |
They lived one floor up in a tenement in the Hawkhill |
In the mornings they’d go up to see his grandfather in a small hut at the |
graveyard |
Where he kept watch while nothing moved |
On some days they’d stop above the railway yard and sit and just gaze at the |
trains |
They’d walk slowly looking at where the railings had been taken down |
And he heard they’d needed to melt them down for iron during the wars |
He wondered why they didn’t just rip them off and use them as spears to throw |
at each other |
Then he’d watch the old man as he shaved and got ready to go out |
Do I need to talk everything out |
Only two songs away from your house |
Love, never had a reason before |
So what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
Just before the decade changed he took a long rail journey into England |
It was early August and he went with his grandfather to join his family on |
holiday |
The slow summer train wound its way south over the Tay and Forth valleys |
As they got talking to a traveller about life in other parts |
The traveller told them about playing football in Glasgow |
And hurting his skin on the ashes and the red blase |
As the carriage got warmer his head hurt and he stopped talking with his |
grandfather |
He tried to cheer the boy up and after a while the boy felt bad about ignoring |
the old man |
Do I need to talk everything out |
I’m only two songs away from your house |
Love, never had a reason before |
So what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
In the early days she was someone who lived nearby |
One day she caught his eye from across the hall as an orchestra was playing |
None of the audience or the musicians could distract him from keeping looking |
And outside in the square he kept trying to find her |
Years later he received a letter from her daughter |
She’d moved with her family to Australia and now they’d their lost their mother |
She remembered a conversation she’d had with her as she lay dying that brought |
him to mind |
So she wrote telling him about how her life had gone since that day at the |
concert hall |
I never got to talk everything out |
But I’m only two songs away from your house |
Love, never had a reason before |
So what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
Sometimes all memories seem to get lost. |
It’s like they’re on fire and even trying to get back to them is pointless |
It seems, now, looking back on it there were two kinds of people |
Who you wanted to be and never were, and the good ones you ignored for too long |
then it was too late |
One day an older boy came up to him and looked him up and down |
Returning to his crowd they all laughed like crows as the older boy ridiculed |
the kid |
He remembered that day the rest of his life |
For all that time he kept on wanting to join the laughing crowd of crows |
I never got to talk everything out |
But I’m still two songs away from your house |
Love, never had a reason before |
So what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
When he first fell in love he was at a distance |
He’d follow her miles behind on the road but close enough to see how her head |
moved |
He liked the fact she seemed so content just walking by herself every morning |
In all those days he never once caught up with her |
Later on he told her all this as they sat up and watched the sunrise over The |
Meadows |
One day he found out he wasn’t the only one who walked there with her |
It hurt like hell when she left him on one of those slow journeys |
And somehow her feet just carried on and her head moved that way he’d seen a |
million times before |
I never got to talk everything out |
But I’m still two songs away from your house |
Love, never had a reason before |
OK, so what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
Love, never had a reason before |
OK, so what d’you wanna know? |
If it never had a reason before |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |
What you trying to make sense for? |