{"id":439,"date":"2013-06-28T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincecharming.com\/awp\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2013-07-12T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:45:56","slug":"pay-for-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vincecharming.com\/awp\/pay-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a page all about \u201cPay For Love\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the arrow to activate the exfm player: \u00a0<\/span>Pay For Love<\/a><\/p>\n

Read below for credits, the story, and lyrics.<\/p>\n

The players:<\/span>
\nVC: \u00a0lead \u00a0& harmony vocals, Moserite acoustic guitar, Danelectro DC 12 electric 12-string guitar (rhythm & lead), \u00a0Fender Precision bass guitar, drum programming, “Cousin” Ken Maffeo: backing vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

The Story:<\/p>\n

I wrote these words in 2006 and really wanted this to be a song for my then band, The New Americans. I tried and tried and tried but could not write music to go with the words. Finally in the midst of recording this CD I finally had a breakthrough and the song became what you hear now. I immediately knew this would be a song for my newly purchased Danelectro electric 12 string and knew this would have a mid-sixties Byrds type sound to it. But I also found the song’s inner “Rubber Soul” (think “Nowhere Man) when “Cousin” Ken and I worked on all the backing vocals…again I had recorded them all myself, but Ken just made them so much better. I also had originally envisioned this song as a duet…but that did not work out.\u00a0Now…this song has been called cynical and as someone who has been famously called a romantic, I have to disagree. I think \u00a0it’s much more realistic than cynical. It came to be as a hodgepodge of stories and impressions from people like me on the dating scene. As is often the case the original inspiration for the song was a single line that had bounced around in my head: “What good is your money if you don\u2019t spend it on someone.” But I also intended to show that we all “pay for love” in many ways whether it involves money, suffering or sacrifice. When trying to impress we often “put our money where our mouth is” …both women who in middle age often go to ridiculous extremes and men to who may pay quite more literally to meet their needs. It’s social observation, but it’s also a bit tongue in cheek, and thus I will continue to protest the cynical label. Of course I can’t leave out the guitar lead played with my “magic fingers.” I had written the lead part and played a rough version and waited and waited for several other musicians to do the lead…but wait I did for over a year until I finally just went back and redid it myself! Not bad, if I do say so!<\/p>\n

Lyrics<\/span><\/p>\n

Pay for Love<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Chorus:<\/div>\n
\u00a0When love doesn\u2019t pay<\/div>\n
You\u2019ve got to pay for love<\/div>\n
What good is your money<\/div>\n
If you don\u2019t spend it on someone<\/div>\n
You got to pay for love<\/div>\n
When love doesn\u2019t pay<\/div>\n
We all have been there<\/div>\n
Or else we\u2019ll be there someday<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
She can put another personal ad on the website<\/div>\n
Or take a trip down to the corner pub<\/div>\n
She can sit and complain about wrinkles and cellulite<\/div>\n
Or work out at the gym or dance down at the pub<\/div>\n
It\u2019s all about choice, it\u2019s all about changes<\/div>\n
And sometimes you have to put your money where your mouth is<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Chorus<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He once had it all; had the girl of his dreams<\/div>\n
Now the only sweetness he has is a pint of ice cream<\/div>\n
He became the man he always thought he\u2019d become<\/div>\n
But nice doesn\u2019t fly with his type of woman<\/div>\n
He knows it\u2019s all about choice, knows it\u2019s all about changes<\/div>\n
Knows it\u2019s time to put some money where his mouth is<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A bayside hotel, a fourth floor view<\/div>\n
Naked and naughty sure kills those blues<\/div>\n
A girl half his age, bills on the nightstand<\/div>\n
Smiling as he slips through the moral quicksand<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Since love never paid<\/div>\n
Now he\u2019ll pay for love<\/div>\n
All that money\u2019s no good<\/div>\n
Unless he spends it on someone<\/div>\n
So he\u2019ll pay for love<\/div>\n
Because love didn\u2019t pay<\/div>\n
He\u2019s been there before<\/div>\n
Perhaps he won\u2019t be someday<\/div>\n
VC<\/div>\n
4\/8\/06<\/div>\n
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