On the Side

Another song that somehow didn't make the cut at the Las Cruces Inn. Maybe it was written after the 5-year stay at the best job Knees ever had in music. Whenever I write a C&W melody I hope that Ray Charles will do it right eventually.

ON THE SIDE

Written: Gallagher Street, Las Cruces NM, 1981

Knees wracked his brain to come up with an expression of love that was fresh and meaningful, and more importantly, pragmatic, and this is what he came up with. You have to admit, very few modern C&W songwriters have explored this particular tack.

Yes it really happened,

That was really you and me

Who spent all that time together,

Lovin so wild and free.

You never said it was forever,

An then one day you were gone

There was a big ol world a-callin

An forever can be so long.

So don’t play those halfway games

While your man is out of town

The world has thrown us together

And the sun is goin down.

An don’t tell me how you love him now

Cuz I’ve heard those words too

I know from our times together

You’re just too good to be true.

Oh I’ve loved a few since losin you

But no matter how hard I’ve tried

I’ll never love anyone so much

That I wouldn’t want you on the side.

Big Uncle