"Waiting For Loretta Too Long" lyrics

"Waiting For Loretta Too Long"

I know a girl she's blonde and free
Turns 21 on new years eve
Everytime I see her she clings to me
Cause that's what young girls do
Shes fire on her own she knows me well
Never gets mad at the storys I tell
Shes an old soul living in a cheap motel
Travelin to by sea

I been up and I been down
And I been away and I been around
And I been mopin all around this town
Waiting for loretta too long

Well I knew a girl
I knew her family too
And theyd all try to skin me if they only knew
But it only happened for a time or two
I couldn't hold her all through the storm
Well shes a comfort in the rain
Shes a walk in the park
Shes cold in the day
Cool when its dark
And I came outside and she was standing on my car
She don't like it when I tell her no

Well I been up and I been down
I been away and I been around
And I been mopin all around this
Waitin for loretta too long

Well I met a girl she liked the way I smelled
Thought it was a little bit weird but I thought what the hell
So we road all around til the morning fell
I liked her freckles in the sunrise
So I saw her again but it wasn't too long
Before she asked me to sing her a loretta song
And that's about the time everything went wrong
I never saw or heard from her again
Cause she knew better than that
And she knew better than me
And she could see all the things I couldn't yet see
And she told me id get it eventually
I'm still looking I guess

So I been up and I been down
And I been away and I been around
And I been mopin all around this town
Waiting for loretta too long


Writer(s): Joseph Purdy
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