If We Want Love To Last Lyrics - Connie Smith

Everybody I know is a looking for love but they don't know how they give it 

Everybody is a looking for more out of life but they don't know how they live it 

Like everything else if we don't return it the love's gonna run out fast 

We gotta put more in than we take out if we want love to last 

Well if it don't rain we might go to church to put in a dollar bill 

Shake the precher's hand and ask him for dinner but really hope he never will 

Then we wonder why we don't get ahead as life keeps up passin' us by 

We keep a looking for things that we can't find ans keep on wondering why 

Everybody I know... 

[ harmonica ] 

Well we can't afford just to take a little time to help a poor soul in need 

We do just enough to heed our conscience in the world of hate and greed 

What we needed for love was the cause of the color of the mam we walk right past 

We gotta put more in than we take out if we want love to last 

Everybody I know... 

Everybody I know...