THE LOVIN’ AIN’T EASY

(music: Peter Robinson)

I’d really like to have you right now where you are

So open up the gate girl and let’s roll around your yard

Oh, but we both know, that’s so very hard

When I spend all my days down at the abattoir

The lovin’ ain’t easy when the job comes home with you

Stun gunnin’ to lovin’ – I really gotta think things through

Daydreams take me from all the meat and marrow

And place me right between all your curves and narrows

Your heart is light like a warbling sparrow

And mine is heavy from hauling heads in wheelbarrows

The lovin’ ain’t easy when the job comes home with you

My clothes are all greasy with blood and guts and goo

Daddy worked the bandsaw and mama pushed a broom

They met and they made me in a butchery room

And from the get go I was being groomed

For a life on the line regular folk can’t do

The lovin’ ain’t easy when the job comes home with you

I can’t get to pleasin’ until I’ve showered for an hour or two

The lovin’ ain’t easy when the job comes home with you

Abattoir to boudoir – mon dieu! mon dieu! mon dieu!