I Write Other People's Love Songs Lyrics

I love your songs, she said

They're hopelessly romantic

What a life it seems you've led

All passion and dramatic

I couldn't bring myself to say

I've never loved in quite that way

But I've read books and talked to friends

And I've heard how a love song ends

I can play the part of a poet who pretends

The truth is

I write other people's love songs

I tell these stories that are not my own

Take these tales I've been told

Try to spin them into gold

I write these songs as though by another man

As though by another man

As though by another man

My most requested song

Was inspired by a gossip column

And one idea came along

As I chatted with a friend who'd fallen

Unexpected inspiration

World of pure imagination

Just give me an opening line

A good idea and a glass of wine

And I can give you a tale as old as time

The truth is

I write other people's love songs

I tell these stories that are not my own

Take these tales I've been told

Try to spin them into gold

I write these songs as though by another man

As though by another man

As though by another man

When descends the muse

'Tis folly to refuse

When descends the muse

'Tis folly to refuse

Will I ever write my very own love song

Will I ever tell a story that is all my own

We'll sit by a shady tree

And I'll sing a song about you and me

And say, I wrote this song and this is who I am

This is who I am

Not some other man

This is who I am