Love’s Last Stand

He was drawn to the damaged look in her eye,
like a wreck on the highway as you drive by;
and he saw in her a woman he’d like to ask for a dance.
The small of her back and the smell of her hair,
made him feel like the luckiest cowboy there;
and he almost hated wasting this moment with words.
Perhaps the things worth asking...perhaps the things worth the wait,
are the things that wise men seek for and fools leave to fate.
Life gives us the music, God sets the time, we write our love songs,
and hope the words all rhyme.
Tonight on this dance floor, one brave woman and one good man
will start their song together, they’ll call it “Love’s Last Stand.”
It’s about a woman who trades her broken heart for a cowboy’s calloused hands.
She was done with trying to turn a man’s head,
she’d only settle for turnin’ his heart instead;
and in this quiet man’s arms she felt somethin’ right.
She looked up and said, “Do you like to dance?”
He said, “I do” with a smile and a glance,
and with those two words their love song begins.
Sure, it won’t be easy, but one lesson they have learned...
love’s not somethin’ they wanna fall into...it’s somethin’ they wanna earn.