Love Must Be Forgiven

 

 

Sometimes, I get some ideas which are not fully hatched.  As I recall, I was wondering if I could have ever been a country songwriter when I produced this which I now consider just to have been bad poetry.  I was trying to write a country lyric with a hook.  For those who have never heard that word, a hook is a repeated line in a song.  The most memorable hook line in a  hook song that I can think of is from "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" by the great songwriter Mac Davis.  As I recall the story I heard him tell once about the song, he was in a dry spell with writing and hadn't produced anything significant in a while.  He said he was talking with his producer or music publisher one or the other about the problem and that person, whomever they were, suggested that Mac write a hook song.  So he sat down and wrote "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me".  It was a massive success.  The song reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks as the number 1 song on each chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972.  That is the best story about a hook song I have ever heard and actually one of the best hook songs I know also.  My little piece of work below is very ordinary in my opinion and won't amount to a hill of beans. 

Love Must Be Forgiven

She said she’d love me all her life.

She said she’s proud to be my wife.

She said we’d be together till the end

But the end came early my friend.

She just left without a fight

Love must be forgiven somewhere tonight

 

She said we’d raise children just like me

She said how proud you’re gonna be

But when I look for what I cannot see

She’s missing from the family tree

She just left without a fight

Love must be forgiven somewhere tonight.

 

We never fought She never cried

But soon her love was denied

I loved her so Lord knows I tried

She just left and I could have died

She gave up without a fight

Love must be forgiven somewhere tonight.

 

I never saw the end until it came

My tears fall down just like the rain

I think of her through this refrain

She gave up without a fight

Love must be forgiven somewhere tonight.

Copyright August 2, 2021, by Roger D. Hicks