Just gimme a chance/
To show you how to love again.

In “Last Worthless Evening” Don Henley sees a woman on the street and sees that she is struggling finding love. Hey, he is struggling too. It is been nearly two years for him since he found a real connection with someone. But he sees something in this girl. He is going to take her under his wing—if she’ll give him a chance to show her how to love again.

Don Henley’s “Last Worthless Evening” essentially offers the woman a choice: take a chance on him and it might be your last worthless evening ever, or continue on as you are with your heartbreak and pain. When you put it that way it seems like Henley’s at least worth a shot.

Henley plays a bit of a hero/savior character in the song. He is going to rescue her and take her and treat her well till her heart is on the mend. It is a romantic thought. However, Henley appears to just know this woman from afar. Guys get notions in their heads like this sometimes, though. We think we can fix things.  “Just be with me and you won’t have anymore worthless nights”. It is a fairy-tale he is selling, but perhaps it has a chance of being a life that is better than the one she currently has. Who knows?

Last Worthless Evening Lyrics

I know you broke up with him,
And your heart’s still on the shelf.
It’s been over two years for me,
And I’m still not quite myself.

You can’t be with someone new,
And you can’t go back to him.
You’re beginning to realize
That it’s sink-or-swim.

I see you around sometimes,
And my heart just melts.
You’re lookin’ like if you had your wish
You’d be somewhere else.

And it just breaks my heart
To see you here this way.
Someday I’ll get the nerve,
To walk up to you and say,

“This is the last worthless evening
That you’ll have to spend.
Just gimme a chance,
To show you how to love again.”

“This is the last worthless evening
That you’ll have to spend.
‘Cause I’ll be there,
When your broken heart is on the mend.”

Every night it’s the same old crowd
Smoky rooms.
You catch a faint glimpse of love sometimes,
But it never blooms.

I’ve been around this block a time or two.
And I’ve made some big mistakes,
But girl I promise you, I promise you,
This is the last worthless evening
That you’ll have to spend.
Just gimme a chance
To show you how to love again.

This is the last worthless evening,
That you’ll have to spend.
‘Cause it won’t be long,
‘Til your little heart is on the mend.

Hey, hey, hey, hey,
(Time, time, tickin’, tickin’, tickin’ away).
(Time, time, tickin’, tickin’, tickin’),
(Time, time, tickin’, tickin’, tickin’ away),
(Time, time, tickin’, tickin’, tickin’).

People inside their houses
With the shades pulled down.
God knows, we could use some romance
In this sleepy bedroom town.
I know you’re still afraid to rush into anything…

But there’re just so many summers,
And just so many springs.
And this is the last worthless evening
That you’ll have to spend.

Just gimme a chance, gimme a chance,
To show you how love again.
This is the last worthless evening
That you’ll have to spend.
‘Cause it won’t be long,
‘Til your little heart is on the mend.

That you’ll have to spend,
Just gimme a chance, darling,
To show you how to love again.
This is the last worthless evening,
That you’ll have to spend.
’cause it won’t be long,
‘Til your broken heart is on the mend.

written by Don Henley