If We Want Love To Last by Connie Smith Lyrics

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 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 up passing us by
We keep a looking for things
That we can't find ans keep on wondering why
Everybody I know...
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...