A song plays absently on an old radio;
the one whose lyrics, everyone knows.
The notes float high over your head-
You absently recite the words, said.
A bitter breakup, with nothing solved;
in the end, nothing was even resolved.
The girl, she's lost; the boy he's gone-
she should have known it, all along.
"I wanna save you." the lyrics go-
lying, something she wouldn't know.
Fate was kind but then turned cruel-
at the end, she felt like such a fool.
This breakup, her last, was the worst;
she wondered if maybe she was cursed.
How could this have happened again?
The pain, plainly heard, needed to end.
She walked around, she seemed, in a daze;
living her life just day by day.
Trying to understand just why he would leave;
I guess in their love, he never did believe.
The notes continue to pass you by-
all the singer keeps asking is "Why?"
But you know the reason and who's to blame-
because of the title: "You Give Love A Bad Name."
