Live with a Broken Heart

picked up his rig in Bakersfield

fore the sunrise hit the smog

coffee and eggs in Barstow

but his mind was still in a fog

he got up to go take a leak

he heard the country music start

and it hit him quick
like a flyin brick

he was gonna have to learn to live with a broken heart

she was laid off at the diner

cuz she didn’t like the boss’s leer

it was just the same when her husband left

she was glad when she got past the fear

she’d call her sister in LA

take the kid and get a brand new start

but now she cried
as she felt inside

she was gonna have to learn to live with a broken heart

there’s a crazy eye inside you

that can see another view

where they don’t have to poison the pigeons

and the dead are all made new

where the lion and lamb are snugglin

and you’re playin just your part

and it never ends
but here my friend

you’re gonna have to learn to live with a broken heart

love,

-  john o.