When Love Was King

When pain didn't reign and love was king

We could wash our hands of most anything

I inherited my fathers sin

I was born and raised in the midst of it

Before a preacher spoke those words in vain

And holy men would bow their head

For I was a I am

The older son of Abraham

The day I drowned in fire and storm

I found out, what I'd always known

I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness

When pain didn't rain and love was king

My daddy was a gambler, drinking man

Showed his love with the back of his hand

Never saw him smile, not a flicker of graze

I think he buried him with momma in a Tennesse clay

The day I drowned in fire and storm

I found out, what I'd always known

And I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness

When pain didn't reign and love was king

The day I drowned in fire and storm

I found out, what I'd always known

And I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness

When pain didn't reign and love was king

A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness

Back when pain didn't reign and love was king