Love Is Not the Only Thing

Another in my series of Mark Heard gems. This from his 1991 album, Second Hand.  He was truly one of the best I’ve ever been around.  You can hear the song on the Youtube link below.

Sun rises and we talk about the weather

Sun bleaches and we ponder it all

The fine line between the banker and the debtor

And what happens if the satellites fall

Too shy we are to come right out and say it

Too sly to let the other one know

Head full of this kaleidoscope of brain-freight

Heart full of something simple and slow

Love is not the only thing

It's the best thing

Love is never everything

But it's the best thing

Too tired to read another twenty pages

Too bored to see the anchorman's face

Too young to bear the burdens of the ages

Too old to keep an innocent pace

You see me like a prism sees a candle

I'm scattered into differing hues

Reality is happening at random

You're warming up the yellows and blues

Love is not the only thing

It's the best thing

Love is never everything

But it's the best thing

Let's go up on the roof beneath the neon

Pretend we're foreigners and drink the city in

Somewhere between the stairwell
and the starlight

I find myself holding your hand

Half-cousins to the angels and the demons

Half-brother to the fatherless sons

I lay awake and wonder at the reasons

One kiss and I am lost in your charms

Love is not the only thing

It's the best thing

Love is never everything

But it's the best thing

Written by Mark Heard
© 1991 Ideola Music/ASCAP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqm2F7ccGo&feature=related