Love Never Runs On Time - Paul Kelly

I pulled out of the suburbs by sunset

Rain was falling, it looked like it would for a while

I had a radio, a six-pack, and some cigarettes

The radio died after the first hundred miles

I sang all the way to the border

And guess who starred in every rhyme?

Ah, you know and I know that love

Never runs on time

I followed that old river 'til the morning

I stopped, I don’t remember the name of the town

But the colour of the coffee spelled a warning

It was the colour of the river, but not nearly as brown

The waitress poured me another

I guess she was the mind-reading kind

Well, you know and I know that love

Never runs on time

You’re lost in the traffic

I’ve been asking around, but you haven’t been seen

I never thought we were perfect

Oh, but darling, what we could have been

The rain came and went all the next day

I pulled over sometime for a sleep on the side

Then I gunned it back out on the highway

I hit a big pot-hole and the radio came alive

I’d never heard a love song yet

But I could call yours and mine

But you know and I know that love

Never runs on time

I’d never heard a love song yet

But I could call yours and mine

'Cause you know and I know that love

Never runs on time