Story Behind The Song

After 28 years of marriage, he ran off with the yoga teacher because in a past life she was an Indian princess and he was her prince! Sometimes you just can't stop a man...

Song Description

Upbeat Americana sound. Great for female voices, harmonies. Trio (Linda, Dolly Emmylou) sound. Snappy rhythm even tho the subject matter (divorce) is serious.

Lyrics

You Can't Stop
Lyrics and Music by Janice Hardgrove

There's a story that we like to tell over and over
how we all get restless in life.
How a man or a woman decides it's over,
and there's no more husband or wife.

Can we really live with some other person
for so long without some strife?
It's a movie script that I can't live up to,
so I'm not even gonna try.

chorus:
"Cause you can't stop the autumn leaves from fallin'
and you can't stop the waves from a rollin' in
Can't make the flowers never blossom
And you're never gonna stop a man who wants to sin
never gonna stop a man who wants to sin.

So no one said it was gonna be easy.
A piece of cake it's not.
But when all those facts are laid out on the table,
you better give up that lot.

Don't ever think that you were a failure
just because you couldn't change his mind.
Recognize that it's nothin' but human nature,
and you didn't win this time.

Chorus
Instrumental on first half of verse

So you can't control what's gonna happen
Don't even think that you could.
A square peg never fit inside a round hole,
and Lord knows it never would.

Your expectations could never figure
into what another person might choose.
It's a universal law that'll never change.
There's nothin' that you can do.

Chorus
No you're never gonna stop a man who wants to sin.