“Tell Laura I Love Her” is the tragic story of a teenage boy named Tommy who is desperately in love with a girl named Laura. Although they are only teenagers, he wants to marry her, so he enters a stock car race, hoping to win. He hopes to use the prize money to buy Laura a wedding ring.

However, the second verse tells how the boy’s car overturned and burst into flames. Tommy is fatally injured and his last words are “Tell Laura I love her… My love for her will never die.”

In the final verse, Laura prays inside the chapel, where she can still hear Tommy’s voice intoning the title one more time before it fades out.