From the recordings Originals from Canada and 5-Album Collection: C.B. COMPLETE
A song about how difficult it is to make the conscious effort to NOT cast judgement on others, and the unimaginable gifts and unforeseen rewards reaped by giving unconditional love.
Lyrics
LOVE THAT LIVES
The pair of Fools have come and gone, & gone and come again.
Their sordid past has forced the sorry couple to be friends.
Not quite how they remember: Their memories of pain
are swept-away as wisdom teaches how to love again.
You give it up without the thought of a return and you’ll find...
What you gave - you got, when all you wanted was to give a little...
Love that lives:
You live to give but you got ‘cause you gave...
Love that lives;
Count the stars when you’ve got a love.
With tables turned, to their surprise, it’s better here somehow.
Would trade their days of past in for their wiser days of now.
Should they grow old together, and teach themselves to give,
Their hearts; they would pour-open for each other’s life to live.
You give it up without the thought of a return and you’ll find...
What you gave - you got, when all you wanted was to give a little..
Love that lives:
You live to give but you got ‘cause you gave...
Love that lives:
Count the stars when you’ve got a love.
Love that lives.
You live to give but you got ‘cause you gave...
Love that lives.
Thank the stars when you’ve got a love.
The two of them, they can’t contain their feelings from within.
Discovered quite by accident, the best that life has been.
‘My motive it was selfish’, each wonders to themself.
‘The richness that it brings me’ is worth eternal wealth.