I had someone suggest on another site that this lyric should be done in a Leonard Cohen style? I thought another option could be in Nick Cave territory?

It's a song about finding love just when you're at your lowest ebb.

Cupid Don’t Care

(Verse 1)

I buttoned my collar tight to my throat

Pulled my tie like a noose, familiar old rope

Heaved on a jacket two sizes too small

Squeezed my heart tighter, soul curled in a ball.

(Verse 2)

By the church a new scar had been cut in the soil

The sky was as dark as the mood that I wore

But the sun found a way to reach right through

When I lifted my eyes they alighted on you.

(Chorus)

It's hard to write a love song when death's in the air

My head in a bad place but then you were there

It's hard to write a love song from a pit of despair

It hasn’t all been roses but Cupid don't care

(Verse 3)

Apple blossom fell from tear-soaked leaves

I heard the ghost of a voice or maybe just the breeze

Then, in the hall, the noise jumbled, but I was not there

Between the past and the present, transfixed in your stare

(Chorus)

It's hard to write love songs when death's in the air

My head in a bad place but then you were there

It's hard to write love songs from a pit of despair

It's not all been roses but Cupid don't care

(Bridge)

I was an orphan in an orchard and the fruit was bruised

You were a damsel in a dress, last chances largely used

Yet Cupid still found us on this darkest of days

I was shot to pieces and then he took aim

(Chorus)

It's hard to write a love song when death's in the air

My head in a bad place but then you were there

It's hard to write a love song from a pit of despair

It hasn’t all been roses but Cupid don't care

(Chorus)

It's hard to write a love song when death's in the air

My head in a bad place but then you were there

It's hard to write a love song from a pit of despair

It hasn’t all been roses but Cupid don't care

Written by Simon Wright

(May 2020)

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Genre Singer/Songwriter

Collaboration started May 26, 2020 by SimonW
Last upload 3 days ago

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