Don't Turn Your Back on Love - Ezra Furman, The Harpoons

Black hole hips she looks like some sort of insect buzzing across the floor

toward me

I can’t think, she’s looking at me

With those green eyes, shining on me like floodlights way in the back of New

York city

She said she’d take me down to Kokomo

We went to Kokomo, Indiana

Where she told me her real name was Diana, at the gas station

Something about her reminds me of the united states

Sprawling across the west and all the glory

And imagination

Highway 25 divides the great plains from the rocky mountains

And Colorado springs, coal-mining town

Some lady wrote America the beautiful

Sitting on top of pike’s peak up there

Looking way, way down, way, way down

And I don’t know how it happened but here we are on the dance floor together

After all these years and I know her real name now

I know who wrote America the beautiful

And I hear a voice singing in my ear saying

Don’t turn your back on love

No, don’t turn your back on love

You idiot

You fool

Don’t you do it

And I mean I want to go over your house whenever you want me to come over to

your house

But that’s no reason

To turn your back on love

Heartbreak is my roommate now

We live together, and we share the rent

We have long conversations before we go to sleep in bed at night

Ooh, long conversations

And I can’t lie, I’m on the street inside the street in New York City

Or in Boston, or Chicago, whatever city I happen to be in at the time

I’m on the same street

Mhm…

And heartbreak is my roommate

Yes it’s hard, of course it’s hard

It’s supposed to be hard but I can still hear her voice it’s calling

It’s calling, calling, but it’s whispering

Whispering in my ear saying

Don’t turn your back on love

No, don’t turn your back on love

My love, what am I supposed to do?

say no?

Something about her reminds me of the united states

Sprawling across the west in all the glory

And imagination

She spans the seas and the deserts and the forests and the mountains

She brings it all back together in one big lovely package

Oh, baby, oh never turn my back on love

Not while you’re around to whisper in my ear

After all these years, Diana

Is that what is was?

Don’t forget me

No, don’t forget me

I can’t forget you

How could I ever forget you?

Oh, don’t forget me

Don’t turn your back on love

I won’t turn my back on love

Can’t forget you

How could I forget you?