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The Way of Love Lyrics
When you meet a boy that you like a lot
And you fall in love, but he loves you not
If a flame should start as you hold him near
Better keep your heart out of danger, dear
For the way of love is a way of woe
And the day may come when you'll see him go
Then what will ya do when he sets you free
Just the way that you said goodbye to me
When you meet a boy that you like a lot
And you fall in love, but he loves you not
If a flame should start as you hold him near
Better keep your heart out of danger, dear
For the way of love is a way of woe
And the day may come when you'll see him go
Then what will ya do when he sets you free
Just the way that you said goodbye to me
That's the way of love
The way of love
And you fall in love, but he loves you not
If a flame should start as you hold him near
Better keep your heart out of danger, dear
And the day may come when you'll see him go
Then what will ya do when he sets you free
Just the way that you said goodbye to me
And you fall in love, but he loves you not
If a flame should start as you hold him near
Better keep your heart out of danger, dear
And the day may come when you'll see him go
Then what will ya do when he sets you free
Just the way that you said goodbye to me
The way of love
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No comment on the lyrics of this song? "Then what will ya do when he sets you free Just the way that you said goodbye to me" Is Cher singing to a gay man or a woman she's involved with?
@DarrylM65 I wondered if anyone else would catch that which is why I clicked on to this site. This song was recorded a few years before Cher in 1965 by Kathy Kirby and although Kathy Kirby did have a lesbian relationship many years after she recorded the song, since Kathy Kirby wasn't the one who wrote the song, I doubt that the song what you suggest. I think it was just bad lyric writing. There were a few songs in the late '50s and early '60s that changed course in the middle of the song that frustrated a literal thinking...
@DarrylM65 I wondered if anyone else would catch that which is why I clicked on to this site. This song was recorded a few years before Cher in 1965 by Kathy Kirby and although Kathy Kirby did have a lesbian relationship many years after she recorded the song, since Kathy Kirby wasn't the one who wrote the song, I doubt that the song what you suggest. I think it was just bad lyric writing. There were a few songs in the late '50s and early '60s that changed course in the middle of the song that frustrated a literal thinking little girl like me but I never let it bother me too much if it was an otherwise great song. I am also a songwriter and I learned from songs like this how NOT to write lyrics! Lol
People get confused when Cher (a woman) sings giving advice about losing a male lover and then says, "What will you do when he sets you free? Just the way that you, said goodbye to me."
One interpretation is that she is singing to a lesbian lover who is leaving her for a man. However that is unlikely because that would mean Cher is singing about losing a man too, so are they really lesbians?
Second is that she is singing this to a man she loved who has come out of the closet and leaving her for another man. He is the man she met ("when you meet a boy") who is leaving and breaking her heart and warning him that his new male lover may do the same thing to him. This is plausible and fun to think, but not sure if this song aimed at adult Big Band style, was that progressive back in the early 1970's.
More than likely share is giving general advice to any woman (or gay man) about falling in love and getting dumped. That questionable last line is an aside, where she turns and directs her thoughts directly TO that lover who jilted her. It shifts from general to personal second person.