Jeannie C. Riley - Duty Not Desire Lyrics

When my lips get kissed it's just from force of habit

For a long long time I've known what's goin' on

His pretending hasn't fooled me for a minute

And it's duty not desire that brings him home

My heart is a foot stool he uses and he only takes advantage of my love

The woman in me he abuses cause it's duty not desire that brings him home

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Oh does he think I'm such a fool that I don't notice

The changes that have taken a place in him

Where once a love was pession now there's coldness

And the love once burnin' bright now burns so dim

My heart is a foot stool...

Yes it's duty not desire that brings him home