(Gary Morris - Eddie Setser)

He graduated at the head of his class
With the kind of ambition that moves ahead fast
He wears a three-piece suit to a two name firm
He's got a one-track mind and no time to burn.

He married the girl he dated all through school
She wants a family but it just ain't cool
'Cause if you go to work early and come home late
It takes all you got to prove you got what it takes.

Chorus:
And there's always a price for everything in life
And sometimes it's somebody else who has to pay
The future looks so bright though he ain't got time tonight
But love, love don't work that way
Love, kove don't work that way.

He makes the right parties, shakes the right hands
He's quick to say yes, he's a company man
But deals bein' made, its just part of the lie
What he takes he can justify.

Meanwhile back at the penthouse suite
A lonely woman tries but she can't go to sleep
And he'd have known if he'd bothered to call
While he was climbin' the ladder she was climbin' the wall.

Chorus:
And there's always a price for everything in life
And sometimes it's somebody else who has to pay
The future looks so bright though he ain't got time tonight
But love, love don't work that way
Love, kove don't work that way.

Sitting on an old night stand is a photograph
A wedding band, a note she wrote he never threw away
It said love, love don't work that way
It said love, love don't work that way.

Love, love don't work that way
Don't you know love, love don't work that way...