Token Love 

(Music: Keith Brown / Lyrics: Walter Kitchen, 1985 & 11-20-1996) 

  

Ooh, token love, ooh broken love, ooh token love, ooh token love, 

I have some questions now I'd like to ask you, 

Your answers will tell me just what I must do, 

When we're together things aren't as they should be, 

Seems like we're making token love, you and me, 

Token love, oh token love, broken love can't you see? 

Token love, oh token love, broken love can't you see? 

  

Past times, our glory days of laughter and of strife, 

Soft nights together in the time of our lives, 

Things on the outside appear much the same, 

It's just that we forgot the rules of the game, 

Token love, oh token love, broken love can't you see? 

Token love, oh token love, broken love can't you see? 

  

Backward, turn backward this time in its flight, 

Carry us back now to those long, dark nights, 

Back to a time now when the feeling was new, 

We've come from smokin' love down to this token love, 

Ooh, and it hurts me girl when I see us this way, 

There was another time, another world, 

And now we’re living our lives holding on to yesterday. 

  

I see things clearly, I know you feel it, too, 

I'm so heartbroken to feel the way I do, 

Time was, we couldn't wait to turn out the light, 

These days we speak in silence throughout the night, 

Token love, oh token love, broken love can't you see? 

Token love, oh, token love, token love, broken love 

Can’t you see this token love? 

How can it be, this broken love? 

  

There was time when the flame burned bright, but now it’s token love, 

Girl, can’t you see there’s just you & me with our broken love? 

Now I recall, they said we had it all when we shared smokin’ love, 

A thousand nights when I held you tight came down to broken love. 

Girl, can’t you see there’s just you & me with our broken love? 

Two burning hearts slowly torn apart from things I had spoken of.

 

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