I love trying new forms of writing.
Here's my attempt at a song in the country idiom.

Are there any singers out there willing to take it out for a test drive?

Hurtin’

We’re just actors on a stage
Avoiding all our lines
Life’s turned another page
And you’ve said you can’t be mine

(Chorus)
Fools love as well as wise
Though it’s often hard to see
The causes in our lives
Now the lies have set you free

So, you found another’s soul
And you’ve turned your back on mine
You’ve accepted heartbreak’s role
I’ve got nothing left but time

(Repeat chorus above)

Aches a word I’ve come to know
Hope’s a feeling now denied
But I won’t let love’s pain show
When I see you by his side

(Repeat chorus above.)

(© Craig Russell)