Chris Smither - No Love Today lyrics

rate me

I don't know much when I knew less

And I was heartbroke for the first time

Drowning in my tears

I went looking for a lifeline

Trying to find some comfort

Just a simple tender touch

Searching for some little cure

That would mot cost too much

And I can hear that produce wagon on the street

I can hear that farmer singing

'Cause I cried myself to sleep

"I got bananas, and watermelon

and peaches by the pound

sweet corn, mirleton, more better than in town

I've got okra, enough to choke you

Beans of every kind

If hungry is what's eating you

I'll sell you piece of mind"

But this ain't what you came to hear me say

And I hate to disappoint you

I got no love today

I got no love today

I got no love today

No love today

I could not love to save myself

from lonesome desperation

Everything I thought was love

was worthless imitation

My concept of commitment

was to take all you could give

I thought the cheapest thrills

I loved were teaching me to live

But nothing seemed to last or see me through

Nothing but that little song

that I still sing for you

"I got bananas, and watermelon

and peaches by the pound,

sweet corn, mirleton, more better than in town

I've got okra, enough to choke you

Beans of every kind

If hungry is what's eating you

I'll sell you piece of mind"

But this ain't what you came to hear me say

And I hate to disappoint you

I got no love today

I got no love today

I got no love today

No love today

No love today

none tomorrow

not now

not forever

You can't see what comes for free

I think you're much too clever

For your own good

I will tell you what's right before your eyes

Intelligence is no defense against what this implies

In the end no one will sell you what you need

You can't buy it off the shelf

You got to grow it from the seed

'Cause, "I got bananas, and watermelon

and peaches by the pound

Sweet corn, mirleton

more better than in town

I've got okra

enough to choke you

Beans of every kind

If hungry is what's eating you

I'll sell you piece of mind"

But this ain't what you came to hear me say

And I hate to disappoint you

But I'm gonna disappoint you

I've got no love today

I got no love today

I got no love today

No love today