Ry Cooder - That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me

From the album - "The Slide Area" (1982)

Lyrics:
Brand new day, brave new man
It's a miracle what love can do
All the joy romance can bring
Come smiling down on a heart that's true

Love is real, you can't turn it around
It's like a river running down to the sea
This old world turns around for lovers like you
It's not the way love turned out for me

People in love build a house they can share
Takes a long time to get it just right
But a fire can start in the kitchen somewhere
And burn that little house down overnight

A flame burning bright in your heart
I believed that you turned it on just for me
Another man held that fire, burned our house to the ground
That's the way love turned out for me

People turn out for the big show
Pretty flowers turn out in the spring
And the light turns out in the kitchen
When somebody pulls on the string

There's no light burning in my kitchen
And no doors open up with my key
I ain't got nobody to turn to
And that's the way love turned out for me

See I ain't got nobody to turn to, people
That's the way love turned out for me

Love, oh, love turned out that way for me
I don't know 'bout you
But that's the way it turned out for

Everybody knows what I'm talking about
Love turned out that way for me
Hello, Young lovers goodbye