Lyrics

People ask him why he's such a racehorse
he just turns a smiles and then he say
you got to take advantage of those opportunities
never let a good chance slip away

after work he finds himself a bottle
he gets so drunk that he can hardly drive
drags a hungry body home to no one
turns the TV on and then he starts to cry, he wonders

Why must it always work out wrong
when it could be right/oh why
must it always work out wrong
when she could be here tonight

she told him there could never be a secret
he told her that the truth would set her free
but when he asked her where she'd been and what
she was doin' last night she just smiled his smile/he let her be

He never could resist her soft effusive kiss the way she let/let her white dress fall
so when he felt her love was like a candle burnin' low he wondered/
why must it always work out wrong
when it could be right/oh why
must it always work out wrong when she could be here tonight

tell me why must it always work out wrong when it could be right tonight.