Story Behind The Song

An acoustic-based song that evolves into a driving four-on-the-floor bear a la U2, with powerful female vocals. A woman tells her lover "now you know the leaving side of love." The woman moves from town to town, ruining lives as she goes, because she's li

Song Description

An acoustic-based song that evolves into a driving four-on-the-floor bear a la U2, with powerful female vocals. A woman tells her lover "now you know the leaving side of love." The woman moves from town to town, ruining lives as she goes, because she's li

Lyrics

The Leaving Side of Love - Tori Sparks Ac 2009

I am the woman with the horse's mane
Who likes to run and who never came
Around to your point of view
And while looking straight at you
I call someone else's name

But you love me 'cause you need me
And I don't need anyone
You love me 'cause you feed me
And I eat out of your hand
At least until my hunger is done

You'll be the cure for all that ails me
And I'll be the poison in your blood
You'll be my heart but when it fails me
Just like it always does

Then you'll know the leaving
Side of love

Now I ain't saying I been around
But I got a name 'round town
Maybe not this town or the last one
But I broke a man in half once
He didn't even make a sound

I can't help the way I am
I can't help the way I act
I am the scorpion in the story
And we're both gonna drown
As long as I'm sitting on your back

You are the cure for all that ails me
And I am the poison in your blood
You are my heart, but when it fails me
Just like it always does

Then you'll know the leaving
Side of love

So I leave you beneath the streetlights
Watch them shine on your tears
Though you know better every word
Sounds like gospel sounds like birdsong
Loving every lie you hear

I say I might be back down the line
Baby I'll be thinking about you all the time
But the truth is I can't be fixed
Was never whole to begin with
We're terminal and so am I

You were the cure for all that ailed me
And I'm still the poison in your blood
You were be my heart, but then it failed me
Just like it always does

Now you know the leaving
Side of love

You were my heart
But then it failed me
Just like it always does
I am the leaving side of love