CAN'T DEPEND ON LOVE
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1972


I spent most of my life outside
In the drivin' rain
I was only trying to get by
With some of life's amenities.
Well nothing's free.

I got more
Than I bargained for
Now it's plain to see
I can't depend on love
To defend me.

It took most of my time to do
What never was done
I was on the outside of an inside kind of love
That now is gone
Come right or wrong.

It was laid to rest that way
I hate to be unkind
Pretending is for strangers
Who don't know you.

(bridge)

I spent most of my life outside
In the drivin' rain
I was in some one-horse town
Just waiting for a plane
To take me back
Now where's that at.

I paid the price
Well ain't that nice
Knowin' I'm so free
I can't depend on love to defend me.

I got more
Than I bargained for
Now it's plain to see
I can't depend on love to defend me.



(Transcribed by David Story - March 2013)