When Love For Woman Stops - Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott

She's almost 40 now, and if life's fair

It won't have touched her face or touched her golden hair

It won't have touched the way she used to speak my name

Like single raindrop doesn't really touch the windowpane

She's probably 50 now, no doubt she's changed

The wear and tear and doubt, the lives arrange

The wear and tear, and no one there, drives a girl insane

The doubt of reaching out for love and getting beat again

There's no easy way of saying it, no easy way it's done

The father you looked up to then no longer loves your mum

Call up social services, even call the cops

No man's ever gone to jail when love for woman stops

She must be 60 now, well on that route

Down lane of pure disdain from young and cute

Rolling out red carpet promises and ringing wedding bells

Gives a special kind of to a girl who knows too well

There's no easy way of saying it, no easy way it's done

The father you looked up to then no longer loves your mum

Call up social services, even call the cops

No man's ever gone to jail when love for woman stops

She's over 70 now, way past her best

But the one who holds the key to love's treasure chest

Doubtless has a younger flame to keep him warm at night

Well this old one just flickers in the distant hope he might

There's no easy way of saying it, no easy way it's done

The father you looked up to then no longer loves your mum

Call up social services, even call the cops

No man's ever gone to jail when love for woman stops

Love for woman stops...

Love for woman stops...

She's in her 80s now, she's close to death

And the one thing that won't let her down is final breath

So much more reliable than the absent talk of man

Nothing quite as black-and-white as the chequered flag of Ann

There's no easy way of saying it, no easy way it's done

The father you looked up to then no longer loves your mum

Call up social services, even call the cops

No man's ever gone to jail when love for woman stops

Love for woman stops...