Paul Heaton - When Love For Woman Stops lyrics

[Verse 1] She's almost 40 now, and if life's fair It won't have touched her face or touched her golden hair It won't have touched the way she used to speak my name Like single raindrop doesn't really touch the windowpane She's probably 50 now, no doubt she's changed The wear and tear and doubt, the lives arrange The wear and tear, and no one there, drives a girl insane The doubt of reaching out for love and getting beat again [Chorus] There's no easy way of saying it, no easy way it's done The father you looked up to then no longer loves your mum Call up social services, even call the cops No man's ever gone to jail when love for woman stops [Verse 2] She must be 60 now, well on that route Down lane of pure disdain from young and cute Rolling out red carpet promises and ringing wedding bells Gives a special kind of tinnitus to a girl who knows too well [Chorus] [Verse 3] She's over 70 now, way past her best But the one who holds the key to love's treasure chest Doubtless has a younger flame to keep him warm at night Well this old one just flickers in the distant hope he might [Chorus] Love for woman stops... Love for woman stops... [Verse 4] She's in her 80's now, she's close to d**h And the one thing that won't let her down is final breath So much more reliable than the absent heart of man Nothing quite as black-and-white as the chequered flag of end [Chorus] Love for woman stops...