Don't Turn Your Back on Love

Black hole hips she looks like some sort of insect buzzing across the floor toward me
 I can't think. she's looking at me
 with those green eyes, shining on me like floodlights way in the back of New York city
 she said she'd take me down to Cocomo
 we went to Cocomo, indiana
 where she told me her real name was Diana, at the gas station.
 Something about her reminds me of the united states
 sprawling across the west and all the glory
 and imagination
 highway 25 divides the great plains from the rocky mountains
 and colorado springs, coal-mining town
 some lady wrote america the beautiful,
 sitting on top of pike's peak up there
 looking way, way down. way, way down
 And I don't know how it happened but here we are on the dance floor together,
 after all these years and I know her real name now
 I know who wrote america the beautiful
 and I hear a voice singing in my ear saying
 Don't turn your back on love
 no, don't turn your back on love,
 you idiot
 you fool
 don't you do it
 And I mean i want to go over your house whenever you want me to come over to your house.
 but that's no reason
 to turn your back on love
 heartbreak is my roommate now
 we live together,and we share the rent
 we have long conversations before we go to sleep in bed at night
 ooh, long conversations
 and I can't lie, I'm on the street inside the street in new york city,
 or in boston, or chicago. whatever city i happen to be in at the time.
 I'm on the same street.
 mhm
 and heartbreak is my roommate
 Yes it's hard, of course it's hard.
 it's supposed to be hard. but i can still hear her voice it's calling,
 it's calling, calling, but it's whispering,
 whispering in my ear saying
 Don't turn your back on love
 no, don't turn your back on love,
 my love. what am i supposed to do? say no?
 something about her reminds me of the united states
 sprawling across the west in all the glory.
 and imagination
 she spans the seas and the deserts and the forests and the mountains,
 she brings it all back together in one big lovely package
 oh, baby, oh never turn my back on love
 not while you're around to whisper in my ear
 after all these years, Diana
 is that what is was?
 Don't forget me
 no, don't forget me.
 I can't forget you
 how could I ever forget you?
 oh, don't forget me.
 don't turn your back on love
 I won't turn my back on love.
 can't forget you
 how could I forget you?