Trigger Happy Love - Janis Ian

I’ve seen her standing in the street

Just waiting for the next affair

Satin braces on her feet, and manicured hair

I’ve seen him waiting in the wings

Counting shadows as they pass

The warning buzzer starts to ring

He’ll break her like glass, and caress every sliver of dress

then insist that she kiss and be blessed

The big test — the big test

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Each and every day, the need’s growing stronger

Can’t hold back any longer

Trigger happy love triggers a love that’s no love at all

The hand is quicker than the eye

The present closer than the past

He took her once, he took her twice, not waiting to ask

Then he laid her body down

stroking gently on the stairs

The blushing roses turned to brown, and mixed with the air

and the heat and the noise of the street

in the dust of what must be complete

To have need — to have need

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Each and every day, the need’s growing stronger

Can’t hold back any longer

Trigger happy love triggers a love that’s no love at all

They gave him twenty to life

He’s out in five on parole

Back to the kids and the wife, and life on the dole

He’s just a family man

She nags him worse than before

He counts the minutes on his hand

and walks out the door to be charmed in the arms of a whore

To be freed of the need to be more

To want more — to want more

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Feelings are stealing your heart away

Each and every day the need’s growing stronger

Can’t hold back any longer

Trigger happy love triggers a love

that’s no love at all