Randy Travis - Fool's Love Affair Lyrics

Randy Travis Lyrics

"Fool's Love Affair"

The phone rings twice then it's through
I don't even have to answer I know it's you
Yes I'll meet you for the one thing we shared
Our once a week fool's love affair

Same ole motel the same ole room
Same ole lines we know can't come true
It's just pretending that the guilt's always there
It's just a once a week fool's love affair

It's a fool's love affair
And we're both aware
It's a game and nobody wins
We can't reveal the love that we feel
So we'll just keep it this way til it ends

We hold each other and then say goodbye
It's seems we ought to but nobody cries
We're two people with nothing to share
But our once a week fool's love affair

It's just a once a week fool's love affair

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Writer(s): Milton Brown, Keith Stegall, Charlie Monk

"Fool's Love Affair" was recorded before the release of Randy Travis' debut album in 1986. His wife, Mary Travis, told Rolling Stone Country in 2020, "Randy doesn't even remember because he laid so many things down over the years up until the day of the stroke. He pulled this one out and Kyle did the mixing on it. It's just so great to hear Randy's voice again." The song was released on the 29th of July 2020 to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Travis' debut single, "On The Other Hand". Kyle Lehning said, "It was like unearthing a little buried treasure."

Charlie Monk, who co-wrote this song with Milton Brown and Keith Stegall, recalled while speaking with Sounds Like Nashville, "This was during a time in country music, back in 1982, when there were a lot of songs about sleeping around and having rendezvous at hotels. I was talking to this guy and he was telling me about a rendezvous he had at a hotel with this lady on a weekly basis, and he said that he kinda wished he didn't do it. So I got this idea for a song [...] Randy came in and did a great job, but the hit singers were staying away from traditional country music during that era, they were looking more for crossover songs, so we didn't find anyone to record it. Then Randy became a big star but the lyric didn't exactly lend itself to a clean cut guy like him so the song was never recorded."

"Fool's Love Affair" lyrics

Randy Travis Lyrics