"Paying For That Back Street Affair" lyrics

"Paying For That Back Street Affair"

Yes, I thought that you were true
When I fell in love with you
For you told me you always would play square

Then I learned you had a home
That your wife had not gone wrong
And our love was just a backstreet affair

Was too late to say no when I found you'd fooled me so
For as time passed on I'd learned too much to care
Though I knew I must atone, but my will was not my own
I'm paying for that backstreet affair

You didn't count the cost, you gambled and I lost
Now I must pay with hours of deep despair
You still can live your life with a true, forgiving wife
But I can't live down our backstreet affair

The love I gave so free is left to torture me
Though I know it's hopeless and it isn't fair
But, still I must go on while the gossips spread are wrong
I'm paying for that backstreet affair


Writer(s): Billy Wallace, Jimmy Ruhl
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