If We Want Love to Last

(L. E. White)



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 puttin' 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 preacher'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 on passin' us by

We keep a looking for things that we can't find

And keep on wondering why.



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.



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 puttin' more in than we take out

If we want love to last.



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...