Song about a trucker going to the bottle and women on the road and regretting it. Mix by Tommy Hellsten
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Story behind the song
Inspired by the thousands of truckers I see on the highways.
Lyrics
Painful Love
© Stanley Loh, July 27, 2002
Verse 1
The road is long, I hate it so,
To it I belong, to it I owe.
Oh I have to pay, have to earn my keep,
Our love has no way of growing deep.
Verse 2
Year in year out, I push-pull gears,
Love left in doubt, love disappears,
Beer goes down so good, when the whiskey's gone,
I chase the blues, promises withdrawn,
Chorus
It's a painful love, it's painful love,
When I'm alone, my heart's like a stone,
It’s not enough, long distance love,
When she's back there, the devil deals me a spare.
It's painful love, it's painful love,
Temptation fights devotion on the road,
I’ve got some nerve with the One above,
And I don’t care my heart will explode.
Verse 3
Oh I shut my mind, and try to sleep,
With the smell of cheap wine, love is skin-deep.
At last I call her, and she's angel like,
I apologize, we'll build a new life.
