wrote you a love song on the back of a bible on the back of a bible a love song for you and i ain t no authority about what it says in it i can t even begin it page in the back is blank and waiting for you heard me a sad song on the way to a wedding on the way to a wedding on the car radio and i can t remember words to the verses but i remember the chorus and i can t remember who was marrying who but i m writing this love song for you and i hate this motel room they all smell the same view of the parking lot etched in my brain stuck in this town and you re so far away i ain t got no paper i just got this pen rip out the back page and write you a hymn singing it to you again and again and again wrote you a love song on the back of a bible on the back of a bible for you ain t no authority about what it says in it i can t even begin it but i m writing for you