The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) -- Greg Kihn Band

Charted: 1981
Peaked at #15
Beserkley -- 47149
From the album "Rockihnroll"
Written by G. Kihn / S. Wright
B-Side "When The Music Starts"
45 RPM -- 2:50

We had broken up for good just an hour before
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing 'cross the floor
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And then the band slowed the tempo and the music turns me down
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
It was the same old song with a melancholy sound
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't write 'em like that anymore

We'd been living together for a million years
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
But, now it feels so strange out of the atmospheres
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And then the jukebox plays a song I used to know
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing so slow
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
They don't write 'em like that anymore
Ohh

Mmm, now I wind up staring at an empty glass
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
'Cause, it's so easy to say that she'll forget your past
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
No, they just don't write 'em like that anymore
They don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't
No, they don't
No, no, uh, uh