Play Love Shack

When your thirteen-year-old daughter
Is stood up by the sixteen-year-old boy
Who is about to go missing

Play Love Shack

When your wife tells you
That you don't hug her
The way you used to

Play Love Shack

When none of the tenth graders
Are brave enough
To step out on the dance floor

Play Love Shack

When you see a faded sign
That you're not as fun
As you were
A mere two years ago

Play Love Shack

When you can't get your sixty-year-old mother
To dance with you
At your cousin's wedding

Play Love Shack

When you wanna get a little drunk
Not a lot drunk
But just a little drunk

Play Love Shack

When all you have in the kitchen
Is Chinese food and black olives
And one clean plate left

Play Love Shack

When life has gone to hell
I promise things will get better
If you play Love Shack

1989 will be back
And we'll all be stupid
And have ridiculous hair
And shout out 'tin roof rusted'

As if we're the only one yelling it

We'll bang bang bang on the door
We'll kiss someone we've always wanted to kiss
We'll finally stop crying
We'll look absolutely foolish
We'll break vases we never liked
We'll take strangers and make them family

All we gotta do
Is play Love Shack