Released: September 30, 1975
Songwriter: Mickey Newbury
Producer: John Farrar
Once they were lovers but now they're not friends
She's found another--he says it's the end
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
So he walks the streets--the few nights he can stand
Drinking her memory away when he can
Friends once would reach out to them from the shore
But now they don't cry anymore
How does it all come to happen
That's not what loving is for
And if I thought it was, I'd leave here in the morning
I'd sooner sleep on the floor
Oh when will we learn really what loving is
It's not what you get in return but what you give
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
She's found another--he says it's the end
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
So he walks the streets--the few nights he can stand
Drinking her memory away when he can
Friends once would reach out to them from the shore
But now they don't cry anymore
How does it all come to happen
That's not what loving is for
And if I thought it was, I'd leave here in the morning
I'd sooner sleep on the floor
Oh when will we learn really what loving is
It's not what you get in return but what you give
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
more tracks from the album
Come On Over / Clearly Love
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Wrap Me in Your Arms
- Smile for Me
- Lovers
- Summertime Blues
- Sail Into Tomorrow
- Come On Over
- Jolene
- Something Better to Do
- He’s My Rock
- He Ain’t Heavy... He’s My Brother
- Let It Shine
- Clearly Love
- Who Are You Now?
- Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
- It’ll Be Me
- Pony Ride
- Slow Down Jackson
- Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)
- The Long and Winding Road
- Don’t Throw It All Away
- Greensleeves
- Small Talk and Pride
From the albums
- Clearly Love (1975)
- Come On Over / Clearly Love (1982)
Olivia Newton-John popular songs
- Hopelessly Devoted to You
- Physical
- Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee
- Let Me Be There
- Twist of Fate
- Xanadu
- Magic
- I Honestly Love You
- To Be Wanted
- Not Gonna Be The One
- Please Mr. Please
- The Key
- (Livin’ In) Desperate Times
- It’ll Be Me
- Pony Ride
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
- In a Station
- God Only Knows
- Ring of Fire
- Mary Skeffington
- Send in the Clowns
- Pearls on a Chain
- Hands Across the Sea
- My Old Man’s Got a Gun