I Wish I Was In Love

from Pickup Takeout by Jonathan Byrd

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I Wish I Was In Love - Jonathan Byrd, Corin Raymond

They fight like dogs most of the time.
I hear them through these walls of mine.
They must be deaf, the way they shout
things I would rather not know about.
Maybe they’re drunk. Maybe they’re stoned.
Maybe they can’t leave well enough alone.
There ain’t much that I can do.
I don’t care who did what to who.
I just walk across and turn the TV up.

I wish I was in love.

They don’t know what they’ve got,
or it’s been so long that they forgot
what lonely is and what lonely does,
just how lonesome lonesome was.
It’s been so long since I got dressed
for anyone but myself.
A little Chinese food in a paper cup.

I wish i was in love.

Be good to each other, be kind tonight.
Hold your baby, and hold them tight.
Get down on your knees and apologize.
It don’t matter who’s wrong or who’s right.
Love is precious, precious like gold.
All I’ve got is this remote control.
I’ll be flipping through the channels to the same old stuff.

I wish I was in love.

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from Pickup Takeout, released July 3, 2020

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times. ... more

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