On Love
Words And Music By Ricky Ross

          
Cadd9 x32033
C/B x20033
G 320033
Em 022000
D xx0232


Verse : G (4 beats)     Cadd9 (2 beats)    D (2 beats)  repeats throughout.

In the early years he spent a lot of time with his grandparents.
They lived one floor up in a tenement in the Hawkhill.
In the mornings they'd go up to see his grandfather in a small hut at the graveyard
Where he kept watched while nothing moved.

On some days they'd stop above the railway yard and sit and just gaze at the trains.
They'd walk slowly looking at over where the railing had been taken down.
And he heard they'd needed them to melt them down for iron during the wars.
He wondered why they didn't just rip them off and use them as spears to throw at each other.
Then he'd watch the old man as he shaved and got ready to go out

Cadd9                C/B
Do I need to talk everything out
Cadd9             D
Only two songs away from your house?
G      Cadd9        D         G          Cadd9
Love, never had a reason before
    D                             G
So what d'you wanna know?
     Cadd9         D        Em
If it never had a reason before
Cadd9     D                    G
What you trying to make sense for?
Cadd9    D                     G
What you trying to make sense for?

Just before the decade changed he took a long rail journey into England.
It was early August and he went with his grandfather to join his family on holiday.
The slow summer train wound its way south over the Tay and Forth valleys.
As they got talking to traveller about life in other parts.
The traveller told them about playing football in Glasgow and hurting his skin on the ashes and red blaes.
As the carriage got warmer his head hurt and he stopped talking with his grandfather.
He tried to cheer the boy up and after a while the boy felt bad about ignoring the old man.

Do I need to talk everything out
I'm only two songs away from your house?
Love, never had a reason before
So what d'you wanna know?
If it never had a reason before
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?

In the early days she was someone who lived nearby.
One day she caught his eye from across the hall as the orchestra was playing.
None of the audience or the musicians could distract him from keeping looking.
And outside in the square he kept trying to find her.
Years later he received a letter from her daughter.
She'd moved with her family to Australia and now they'd lost their mother.
She remembered a conversation she'd had with her as she lay dying that brought him to mind.
So she wrote telling him about how her life had gone since that day at the concert hall.

I never got to talk everything out
But I'm only two songs away from your house?
Love, never had a reason before
So what d'you wanna know?
If it never had a reason before
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?


Sometimes all memories seem to get lost.
It's like they're on fire and even trying to get back to them is pointless.
It seems now looking back on it there were two kinds of people.
Who you wanted to be and never were, and the good ones you ignored for too long and then it was too late.
One day an older boy came up to him and looked him up and down.
Returning to his crowd they all laughed like crows as the older boy ridiculed the kid.
He remembered that day the rest of his life.
For all that time he kept on wanting to join the laughing crowd of crows

Never got to talk everything out
But I'm still two songs away from your house?
Love, never had a reason before
So what d'you wanna know?
If it never had a reason before
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?

When he first fell in love he was at a distance.
He'd follow her miles behind on the road but close enough to see how her head moved.
He liked the fact she seemed so content just walking by herself every morning.
In all those days he never once caught up with her.
Later on he told her all this as they sat up and watched the sunrise over The Meadows.
One day he found out he wasn't the only one who walked there with her.
It hurt like hell when she left him on one of those slow journeys.
And somehow her feet just carried on, and her head moved that way he'd seen a million times before.

I never got to talk everything out
But I'm still two songs away from your house?
Love, never had a reason before
Okay,
So what d'you wanna know?
If it never had a reason before
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?

Love, never had a reason before
So what d'you wanna know?
If it never had a reason before
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?
What you trying to make sense for?