Paying for That Back Street Affair Songtext
von Kitty Wells

Yes, I thought that you were true
when I fell in love with you
For you told me you always would play square

Then I learned you had a home,
that your wife had not gone wrong
And our love was just a backstreet affair


Was too late to say no when I found you′d fooled me so
For as time passed on I'd learned too much to care
Though I knew I must atone, but my will was not my own
I′m paying for that backstreet affair

You didn't count the cost, you gambled and I lost
Now I must pay with hours of deep despair
You still can live your life with a true, forgiving wife
But I can't live down our backstreet affair

The love I gave so free is left to torture me
Though I know it′s hopeless and it isn′t fair
But, still I must go on while the gossips spread are wrong
I'm paying for that backstreet affair