Arkansas Writer: Got To Hurt

I’d love to write songs of joy.

Songs about sweet happiness.

But it’s said mine just don’t have

the strong feelings that they need.

Some say you’ve got to live through

all the things you write about,

so now I write them old sad songs

about a love that’s long gone.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can feel the pain.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can know the strain.

Of living life without a love that was so dear.

So I wrote a song of grief.

One about when I lost you.

How we seemed so very close

but you just drifted away.

How I long for your tender touch.

For your warm embrace.

And for another long kiss

from lips I never kissed enough.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can feel the pain.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can know the strain.

Of living life without a love that was so dear.

With the first sad one I wrote

all my songs began to sell.

They loved it when I described

all the pain that I’d gone through.

They related to the strain

of loving you, but you’re gone.

Every time I dream of you

I write another sad song.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can feel the pain.

All the pain.

I’ve got to hurt over someone so I can know the strain.

Lonely strain.

Of living life without, Life without,

a love that was so dear

to my heart.

To my heart.

My broken heart.

Arkansas Writer