"Lady Down on Love" is a song written by Randy Owen and recorded by American country music band Alabama.
Songwriter Randy Owen recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for the song came about when, during a performance at a hotel nightclub in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he learned that a group of women were celebrating a friend's divorce with a night out on the town.
She reflects on the night her now ex-husband asked her to marry ... and now older and wiser is stunned to realize that the love in her marriage had died so soon.
The second verse, told from the first-person point of view of the husband, reflects on how the marriage used to have love and that he offered "that special touch."
However, work commitments keep him away from home for days at a time, the two grow lonely for each other ... then he makes the mistake of falling for another woman.