Read About Love Lyrics - Singles - Richard Thompson

Asked my daddy when I was thirteen 

Daddy can you tell me what love really means? 

His eyes went glassy, not a word was said 

He poured another beer and his face turned red 

Asked my mother, she acted the same 

She never looked up, she seemed so ashamed 

Asked my teacher, he reached for the cane 

He said, don't mention that subject again 

So I read about love-read it in a magazine 

Read about love-Cosmo and Seventeen 

Read about love-In the back of a Hustler, Hustler, Hustler 

So I-know what makes girls sigh 

And I-know why girls cry 

So don't tell me I don't understand 

What makes a woman and what makes a man 

I've never been to heaven but at lest 

I've read about love 

My big brother told me when I was fourteen 

it's time I showed you what love really means 

Girls like kissing and romance too 

But a boy's got to know what a man's got to do 

He gave me a book, the cover was plain 

Written by a doctor with a German name 

It had glossy pictures, serious stuff 

I readd it seven times, then I knew it well enough 

Read about love-now I've got you 

Read about love-where I want you 

Read about love-got you on the test-bed, test-bed, test-bed 

So why-don't you moan and sigh 

Why-do you sit there and cry? 

I do everything I'm supposed to do 

If something's wrong, then it must be you 

I know the ways of a woman 

I've read about love 

When I touch you there it's supposed to feel nice 

That's what it said in reader's advice 

I've never been to heaven but at least 

I've read about love 

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