Lend Your Heart to Love-David Roth

David Roth – Lend Your Heart to Love On the floor of some motel room down in Florida one spring I fell victim to the charms of Nanci Goldman We'd kissed a lot in high school, that's as far as it had gone And I was sure I'd be a virgin as an old man All too nervous and naively I believe we said goodnight The next thing that I knew she was above me Her eyes were full of fire, somehow mine were full of fear I fell silent when she asked me "Do you love me?" We never did a thing that night, I've often wished we had How often do you get a chance to touch someone like that? I don't mean in clumsy passion or that lonely lover's shove But that moment when you lend your heart to love That summer I was living at the house of my best friend And one day he introduced his girlfriend's cousin To say that I fell hopelessly in awe of Patti Jo Would largely understate the state I was in We were laying round the living room one steamy August night The next thing that I knew I was above her My eyes were full of fire, somehow hers were full of fear Neither one of us had ever had a lover We never did a thing that night, I wonder if we had If a dose of clumsy passion could have really been so bad But she was scared and so was I, and neither sure what of I guess that moment when you lend your heart to love I only mentioned Nanci for the feelings she unlocked And Patti was so pretty, but we never even talked Now both of them are married, no redress and no regrets I was only warming up for what was next In the kitchen of my sister's fifth-floor walk-up in New York I sat staring in the gaze of Mary Fisher Never had I fallen on such gentle, gentile eyes And never such an urge as then to kiss her We were fumbling through the small-talk silence, grasping every straw The next thing that I knew we were embracing I don't know why but somehow I knew this was what I'd missed I could tell just by the way my heart was racing We stayed up talking all night long, that's mostly what we did And when the sun came up we stumbled to the subway like two kids And that's when I began to learn what we'd been talking of About that moment when you lend your heart to love If you're lucky maybe once in life you'll have the chance to find Someone to give your heart to whose reciprocally inclined You'll never know it's coming and you won't know what to say Just drop everything you're doing on that day And don't you ever let that moment slip away