Bob Wire: Music

Our Love Is Solid

(Bob Wire)

2008-03-15

Bob Wire

Written a couple of years ago while hanging out at Tamarisk II with Jim and Barbara and the family. Spent a week there, came home with a notebook full of songs.

The ending on this is copped directly from 'Rocky Top,' one of my favorite hillbilly classics.

Our Love Is Solid (As a 3-Legged Bar Stool)

I drove into town ‘cause you needed tomatoes
Two percent milk and a sack of potatoes
A half hour later when I pulled in the driveway
The cable man was leaving and I smiled and said howdy
Although we have a satellite dish it didn’t strike me as suspicious

The telephone rang in the middle of the night
We were lying in bed in the pale moonlight
You said hello and you made a worried face
Then you told me you were needed over at your sister’s place
I said it’s a lucky thing you got into bed wearing make-up

Chorus
Our love is solid as a three-legged barstool
Even though my friends say you treat me like a damn fool
One of these days I’m gonna prove them all wrong
Because our love is solid like a country love song

Solo (to verse)

My mother came to visit and she complained the whole time
Wringing her hands like a canary in a coal mine
Said I wasted money when I bought you that big diamond
The ladies at the Cut-N-Curl think you are two-timin’
Mom don’t even live here—I wish she’d go back home and mind her business

Chorus

Sometimes I wonder why everyone’s so paranoid
People talking ‘bout you like you’re something that I should avoid
I thank the Lord above that you’ve always been so true to me
The truth is I can’t believe the things they say you do to me
So go enjoy your family reunion even though you are an orphan

Chorus