Thing Called Love - Bonnie Raitt

There was a time, there was a place But there was fear inside A witty line to save my face A parachute of pride To cross the line takes a tiny step, But will this stepp cause the to burn? My fear entwined with my regrets I beat a path for safe return So here we are, we're just the same And you will never know My secret plan, how close we came To share anothe road And have I lost my only chance To tell you how I feel inside? Is it just me, I'd like to know Or are we all just a little blind? There's a thing called love that we all forget And it's a wasted love that we all regret You live your life just once So don't forget, forget about a thing called love

This thing called love Can be so cold It can be miserable Or it can be beautiful This thing called love Can be so cold Sometimes it's amazing Sometimes it's crazy This thing called love Check, check, eh Listen, Your love is like a drug that Everybody uses You wanna know the outcome Depends on how you use it Love could be your best friend Love can be your enemy Love can be the thing you wish you had But you don't ever see Love can be the reason why You're afraid to have it Some say it like it means something Others say it's a habit And some would say it's tragic Some would say it's beautiful Some would say it's black and it's dark Like a funeral And some would die for it Some don't think it's even real Some say they understand But really don't know how it feels Some say that it's alive Some say that it can kill But most of us has been on it Know that sometimes it will I ain't gonna sugarcoat it Yeah, sometimes it might surround you One minute it's saving you Next it's trying to drown you Some people want to show it But were never taught how to And some of us is searching Feeling like it never found you This thing called love Can be so cold It can be miserable Or it can be beautiful This thing called love Can be so cold Sometimes it's amazing Sometimes it's crazy This thing called love Your love is like a privilege A lot of us abuse it Do with it what we want And start crying when we lose it Pretend, like it ain't nothing to us Pretend like it's useless We don't know why we do this But yet, we still pursue it And love, it can consume you Turn you into something else Bury the real you so deep That you can't even find yourself Love, it can change you Love, it can tear you down Be the best thing you ever had And kick you on the ground Yo, you get on that high level Yeah, you scared to fall 'Cause you know if that person hurt you You gonna lose it all They told you they would be there for you They don't even call So that openness you used to have Has now become a wall And some say that it's patient Some say that it's kind I don't think it's invisible But I know that it's blind To some it's only physical Alive in they mind See, it probably isn't there If you're struggling to find it This thing called love Can be so cold It can be miserable Or it can be beautiful This thing called love Can be so cold Sometimes it's amazing Sometimes it's crazy This thing called love This love got me on the down low Now I guess I'm up high One minute I'm on the ground The next minute I'm in the sky I feel invincible And so unrejected Forget it, I'm invisible And I feel unprotected But I don't need nobody else Trust me, I'm fine I can't do this by myself I'm losing my mind I can see clearly Forget it I'm blind My heart says danger Can't you read the signs You been there through all the pain I swear I love it No matter what you do It don't disappear Does it? Yeah, I'd rather Spend a minute with the love of my life Then go a million years without knowing what it's like You better grab it You don't want to lose it Yeah, it brings pain It's insane But the bruises My God can take that all away You find the right person And everything that you thought That wasn't, becomes worth it This thing called love Can be so cold It can be miserable Or it can be beautiful This thing called love Can be so cold Sometimes it's amazing Sometimes it's crazy This thing called love

See somebody walkin' down the street Hangin' head and a-shufflin' feet Don't take much to see What they've been thinkin' of. What makes you hypnotized? What puts a tear in your eye? What makes you have to choose? What brings you the blues? A little thing called love A little thing called love. Only love puts a tear in your eye Only love makes you hypnotized Only love makes you choose Only love brings you the blues. Wait a minute now, honey Don't be sad This may be the best love you ever had That don't mean that you had enough A little thing called love A little thing called love. Only love puts a tear in your eye Only love makes you hypnotized Only love makes you choose Only love brings you the blues. A little thing called love A little thing called love.

Six foot six, he stood on the ground He weighed two-hundred-and-thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love He was the kind of a man that would gamble on luck Look you in the eye and never back up But I saw him crying like a little whipped pup Because of love You can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hands But like the wind it covers our land Strong enough to rule the heart of any man This thing called love It can lift you up, never let you down Take your world and turn it all around Ever since time nothing's ever been found That's stronger than love (Ooh, love, a thing called love) Most men are like me, they struggle and doubt They trouble their minds, day in and day out Too busy with livin' to worry about A little word like love But when I see a mother's tenderness As she holds her young close to her breast Then I thank God that the world's been blessed With a thing called love You can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hands But like the wind, it covers our land Strong enough to rule the heart of any man This thing called love It can lift you up, never let you down Take your world and turn it around Ever since time, nothing's ever been found That's stronger than love Ever since time nothing's ever been found That's stronger than love (Ooh, love, a thing called love)

Yeah baby, I've been drinking, And I shouldn't come by I know But I found myself in trouble darling, And I had no place else to go Got some whiskey from a bar man, Got some cocaine from a friend I just had to keep on moving, Till I was back in your arms again ---- Well I'm guilty, yeah I'm guilty, I'll be guilty for the rest of my life How come I never do, What I'm supposed to do Nothing that I try to do ever turns out right ---- Well you know how it is with me baby, You know I just can't stand myself It takes a whole lot of medicine, For me to pretend to be somebody else.

Nobody else could make me happy No one could hurt me like you do You were the only one that mattered Then you were gone, love had moved on Left me alone thinking of You, there was never any other You, and I were created to be true Isn't it love that keeps us breathing Isn't it love we're sent here for Wasn't that love that we were feeling (That was something baby) Deep in our soul, deeper than we know Keeping me holding out for You, there was never any question You'll be forever on my mind You and I, we were meant to be together True hearts in a world where love is dyin' And I might as well have been dyin' when We were apart When you came back I felt the beating of my heart You, there was never any question You'll be forever on my mind You and I, we were meant to be together You, and only you It was you, only you You, always you

As I walk along I wonder what went wrong With our love a love that was so strong And as I still walk on I think of the things We've done together while our hearts were young I'm a walking in the rain to the bone I feel the pain Wishing you were here by me to end this misery And I wonder I w-w-wonder why you ran away And I wonder if you will stay my little runaway my runaway I'm a walking in the rain to the bone I feel the pain Wishing you were here by me to end this misery And I wonder I w-w-wonder baby yeah you know why you ran away And I wonder if you will stay my little runaway my little runaway Come back baby (Run, run, runaway) You left me standing in the rain (Run, run, runaway) Come back baby (Run, run, runaway) Standing in the rain (Run, run, runaway)