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