Paying Off The Interest With My Tears Song Lyrics and Chords
Paying Off The Interest With My Tears Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
Paying Off The Interest With My Tears
Written and Recorded by Hank Thompson
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You said that you'd be mine and we
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signed that dotted line
I
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thought that we'd be happy you and
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me
If I had only known your
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love was just a loan
For
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now you're asking me to set you
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free
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never thought your kisses were
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like a charge account
That I'd
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have to pay in heartaches for
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taking my amount
I'll
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give you back your love that
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I've had all these years
But I'm
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paying off the interest with my
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tears
It's the expiration date you
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say there's no rebate
And I
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guess you'll say my heart is over
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drawn
Another love you chose so
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my account is closed
And
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now I'll have an empty heart at
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home
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credits discontinued you
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say there's someone new
To take
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over all the payments on a
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heart that's overdue
I'll
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give you back your love that
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I've had all these years
But I'm
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paying off the interest with my
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tears
I didn't understand your
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easy payment plan
That
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I would only have you for a
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while
The love contract we wrote was a
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just a short term note
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placed my name on your inactive
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Paying Off The Interest With My Tears?
- The song Paying Off The Interest With My Tears was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.