Love Song (Live from the Hollywood Bowl)

[Intro]

A one, a two

A one, two, three

[Verse 1]

Head underwater and they tell me

To breathe easy for a while

The breathing gets harder, even I know that

Made room for me but it's too soon to see

If I'm happy in your hands

I'm unusually hard to hold onto

[Pre-Chorus]

Blank stares at blank pages

No easy way to say this

You mean well, but you make this hard on me

[Chorus]

I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you asked for it, 'cause you need one

You see, I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this

If you're on your way

I'm not gonna write you to stay

If all you havе is leavin', I'ma need a better rеason

To write you a love song today

[Verse 2]

I learned the hard way that they all say

Things you wanna hear

And my heavy heart

Sinks deep down under you

And your twisted words, your help just hurts

You're not what I thought you were

Hello to high and dry

[Pre-Chorus]

Convinced me to please you

Made me think that I need this too

I'm trying to let you hear me as I am

[Chorus]

I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you asked for it, 'cause you need one

You see, I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this

If you're on your way

I'm not gonna write you to stay

If all you have is leavin', I'ma need a better reason

To write you a love song today

[Bridge]

Promise me

That you'll leave the light on

To help me see

With daylight, my guide, gone

I believe there's a way

You can love me because I say

[Chorus]

I won't write you a love song

'Cause you asked for it, 'cause you need one

You see, I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this, no

Is that why you wanted a love song?

'Cause you asked for it, 'cause you need one

You see, I'm not gonna write you a love song

'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this

If you're on your way

I'm not gonna write you to stay

If your heart is nowhere in it, I don't want it for a minute

Babe, I'll walk the seven seas

When I believe that there's a reason

To write you a love song today

Oh yeah

[Spoken Outro]

You sound amazing LA

I wanna introduce you to a wonderful friend of mine

An incredible asset to the band

He's on the heartbeat, this is Mr. Charley Drayton on the drums

Hey buddy

Um, so, as, as you've already experienced, we're gonna

Do some new songs, we're gonna do some old songs, um

This is another song off the new record and

This was written, the seeds of this song were written, um

After I returned home from the women's march and

Did you march LA?

Man, I was um, I was profoundly changed by that experience, um

My actual sister and my chosen sisters, some of my best friends

We made the pilgrimage

Some of them are here tonight that I marched with

Woo, I hear you somewhere

Um, and we made the pilgrimage to Washington D.C

And we crowded in a hotel room

And we marched on the mall with hundreds of thousands of people

And I have never felt safer or more seen and heard in my entire life

It was so powerful to lend your, your time and energy to something

Um, bigger and more important than just you and it was so beautiful and, um

So I, I really started thinking about

The fact that we're alive at this time

Where there's this incredible shift in consciousness about what it means to be a woman

And what it means to sort of

Disassemble and, and reanalyze some things that have always just been sort of

Social constructs and they're just, they just are but they don't have to be

And so to be alive at a time where we get to make these choices consciously is

Super fucking important to me and I am so proud to be a feminist

And I am so proud

That I also love the men in my life and that I'm surrounded by an incredible community of, of

Men and women who lift each other up

So um, this one goes out to

To all my sisters and all our friends