Lyrics Richard Thompson – Read About Love

Asked my daddy when I was thirteen
Daddy can you tell me what love really means?
His eyes went glassy, not a word was said
He poured another beer and his face turned red

Read about love — read it in a magazine
Read about love — Cosmo and Seventeen
Read about love — in the back of a Hustler, Hustler, Hustler
So I know what makes girls sigh
And I know why girls cry

So don’t tell me I don’t understand
What makes a woman and what makes a man
I’ve never been to heaven but at lest
I’ve read about love

My big brother told me when I was fourteen
It’s time I showed you what love really means
Girls like kissing and romance too
But a boy’s got to know what a man’s got to do
He gave me a book, the cover was plain
Written by a doctor with a German name
It had glossy pictures, serious stuff
I read it seven times, then I knew it well enough

Read about love — now I’ve got you
Read about love — where I want you
Read about love — got you on the test-bed, test-bed, test-bed
So why don’t you moan and sigh
Why do you sit there and cry?

I do everything I’m supposed to do
If something’s wrong, then it must be you
I know the ways of a woman
I’ve read about love

When I touch you there it’s supposed to feel nice
That’s what it said in reader’s advice
I’ve never been to heaven but at least
I’ve read about love