Attainable Love Lyrics - Singles - Christine Lavin

He's not eighteen, he's not twenty-five 

He's closing in on forty, look at those eyes 

He's searching for something, he can not describe 

He's not unhappy, he's not satisfied 

He falls in love with covers of slick magazines 

With serious actresses on the screen 

All are unattainable except in his dreams 

Where his heart and his soul reside 

'Cuz he is afraid of attainable love 

Afraid it will envelop him, swallow him up 

All of his life he has resisted the tug 

Of attainable love, attainable love 

His dance card is full, he's so much in demand 

He get's nervous when his partners try to hold his hand 

He's got to keep his options open, he's that kind of man 

The girls he cha-cha's with never understand 

They wonder if he's gay but the truth is he's not 

He just won't settle for whatever it is he's got 

They want to Tango, he want's to Fox Trot 

Don't even think about the can can, he can't can't 

'Cuz he is afraid of attainable love 

Afraid it will envelop him, swallow him up 

All of his life he has resisted the tug 

Of attainable love, attainable love 

Add me to the list of women 

Who think you'll be different with me 

Add me to the list of fools 

Who flatly refuse to see that just like me 

He is afraid of attainable love 

Afraid it will envelop him, swallow him up 

All of his life he has resisted the tug 

Of attainable love, attainable 

He is afraid of attainable love 

Afraid it will envelop and swallow him up 

All of his life he has resisted the tug 

Of attainable love, attainable 

All of his life he has resisted the tug 

Of attainable love, attainable love 

All of his life he has resisted the tug