When We Tried

(Jerry Chesnut)



You can smother me with kisses

And feel free to let your tender arms surround me

You can love me without fear but don't come here

And try to build no dreams around me.



A man's a fool who looks for love

For one time in a lifetime he might find it

So don't waste no time a talkin' about how love can hurt

'Cause I don't need reminded.



I'll take my happiness a little at a time

Just anywhere I find it

Try to feel at home just knowing

That should you decide to leave I wouldn't mind it.



And when you're gone I'll not recall a love

That only lived one night and died

Just a mem'ry of what little happiness

We found together when we tried.



I can almost read your mind and what I find's

Not hard for me to understand

'Cause a woman's love is stronger one

Remembers even longer than a man.



And if I should even feel that you're pretending that I'm her

I wouldn't mind it

If there's any happiness left in a lonely world like this

Let's try to find it.



I'll take my happiness a little at a time

Just anywhere I find it

Try to feel at home just knowing

That should you decide to leave I wouldn't mind it...