I Could Use a Love Song Lyrics
Usually a drink will do the trick
Take the edge off quick, sittin' in the dark
With a shared cigarette
Seeing eye-to-eye and heart-to-heart
But maybe I'm just gettin' old
Used to work, but now it don't
[Verse 2]
A long gone drive
You know the kind where you take a turn
And you don't know why
But it clears your mind, a surefire cure
I need somethin' stronger
That'll last a little longer
[Chorus]
I could use a love song
That takes me back, just like that
When it comes on
To a time when I wouldn't roll my eyes
At a guy and a girl
Who make it work in a world
That for me so far just seems to go so wrong
Yeah, I could use, I could use a love song
I wish I didn't know so much
I peeked behind the curtain
Now that magic rush
Feels like a trick that isn't workin'
But I haven't lost all hope yet
Yeah, it's hurtin', but it ain't dead
[Chorus]
I could use a love song
That takes me back, just like that
When it comes on
To a time when I wouldn't roll my eyes
At a guy and a girl
Who make it work in a world
That for me so far just seems to go so wrong
Yeah, I could use, I could use a love song
[Bridge]
Give me a sign or a rhyme or a reason
Just somethin' that I can believe in
[Chorus]
I could use a love song
That takes me back, just like that
When it comes on
To a time when I wouldn't roll my eyes
At a guy and a girl
Who make it work in a world
That for me so far just seems to go so wrong
Yeah, I could use
Yeah, I could use, I could use a love song
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I had already gone through a breakup, and I finished the bulk of my album. And so, I was writing with my friends Laura Veltz and Jimmy Robbins here in Nashville. We were at Midtown [Sound Studio], [Robbins'] studio at the time. They were asking me, literally, “What else do you need on this album?” I said, “You know, everything’s not about love. I wasn’t really going through that I guess, so everything is pretty centered, and the point of view is from my own. It’s not a heartbreak record totally.” And they were like, “But you could use a love song on the record?” And then we all got back and were like, “I Could Use a Love Song” is a really cool title. We wrote it really quickly, because it was one of those, you just grab it from the sky, and you hope everything makes sense, and you don’t miss anything. But it really came out of a conversation and an actual question.
–Maren Morris via TheBoot (2017)
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- 2.Rich
- 3.My Church
- 4.I Could Use a Love Song
- 5.80s Mercedes
- 9.I Wish I Was
- 10.Second Wind
- 11.Once
- 13.Company You Keep
- 14.Space
