ANYTHING FOR LOVE
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1986


In my life
In my time and in each line
I've ever sung and
In my life
Was it my imagination or are you still the one
Who lingers on.

I'd do anything for you,
You'd do anything for me
We'd do anything for love.
Oh you'd use any means and
I would try any scheme for love
We'd do anything for love.

Once or twice
In my loneliness I watched the world go by
There was I
One too many miles beyond
Where you might say
Some luck was due after all.

We could have touched the sky
You had no alibi because
We did it in the name of love.
Oh I would try any means
To have you in all my dreams because
You'd do anything for love.

Not long a go as I remember
Once upon a dark and windy day
When love looked like a dying ember
Before you came to call
The beauty of it all
I thought I'd lost and yet.

(bridge)

Cause in my life
Here in my mind in it now shines
A guiding light,
Never again will I lose my way.

(bridge)

Oh I would not tell a lie
And you had no alibi because
We'd all do anything for love.

Oh you'd use any means and
I would try any scheme for love
Simply anything for love.
Oh I would do anything
Just about anything because
We'd do anything for love.

Anything for love
Anything for love
Anything for love.



(Transcribed by David Story - March 2013)