well, you walked that valley's grassy floor and climbed that hillyridge
you stood there naked stung with fear and tippy-toed on theedge
well, you swung on a vine, but crawled in the dirt and made theriver your best friend
you ate ev'rything from a skunk to a perch and filled me up withZen
 
well, you went to a capella and you sang Acapulco, danced on acoin
you tied six Mexicans up in chains, then hitch-hiked to DesMoines
you put the tube in the tub when you joined a club, and took thesoles off your shoes
but, baby, there's one thing you forgot to do
 
you got to love me
more then the trees and stars high above me
you got to love me,
love me,
love me all the time,
if you wanna be mine
(whhheeeewww....)
 
well, you turned my pockets inside out and my inside upsidedown
took fourteen reds and shaved your head and let a semi run youdown
you filed your teeth and chromed your feet, shot a fifteen underpar
prayed thirteen days in eighteen ways then gurued in a bar
 
well you slipped me a Mickey and you read James Dickey, drank upall my wine
you did all that then drowned a bat and bought a Wurlitzer ontime
you ate barbecued stork with a spoon and a fork in a second-handfun'ral plot,
but baby, there's one thing that you forgot
 
you got to love me
more then the trees and stars high above me
you got to love me,
love me,
love me all the time,
if you want to be mine
(MANDOLIN SOLO)spoken during the mandolin solo and the last chorus: I've been alone a long time now, and it seems like foreverIt's not that I wanna beit's just that all them things in there, together - bother meguess it's kosherahhhhhhhhif you'd only come backfigure this thing outI guess it keeps going on hereI'm out of breath, yep... you got to love me
more then the trees and stars high above me
you got to love me,
love me,
love me all the time.