love songs

By: Tony L. Jefferson, Jr.

What’s happened to the world of today?

I guess everyone’s too busy trying to get paid

Love has died a horrible death

These hearts have been robbed, so terrible a theft

For years our ears have always turned to music

When tenors sing that high, enthusiastic acoustic

Sweet soul music is what it was called

Now this bump and grind, I am so appalled

The sweetest release from a singer’s voice

Released into your heart, stand up and rejoice

The rhythmic sounds love lost and found

Floating down the riverside, seems like they’ve all but drowned

Bring back the sounds of the funky Motown

Or when Rose Royce sang “I’m going down”

Back when Marvin Gaye use to sing to us

Or when Al Green serenaded us at the back of the bus

When Etta James and Anita Baker sung of the pains of love

And Luther sang of the power of love

Oooohhhh

Love restores

Love renews

Love is rebirth of passion and pleasure

But no one sings love songs anymore

Now the world is crazy forevermore

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