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We hear a lot about what love is/ You don't hear too much about what it does though/ Love gives/ and looks out for the next person/ and gives out your best/ even when they deserve your worst and/ Some have a little/ Some have a lot/ It's not about how much you got/ The point of the plot/ is if you have any love at all/ you need to share that with the have-nots
Verse 1
Too many people know about hurts/ and spend their lives livin' on the outskirts/ Some without work/ Some without a decent pair of pants and a shirt/ Others just on a search for purpose/ It ain't strange for pity to meet/ kids that grow up in the city streets/ that go to bed hungry/ three or four nights out of the week/ And not because they don't like to eat/ The price of life is not cheap/ But it feels free for some/ But someone's gotta pay for the freedoms we enjoy/ You see the military convoys we employ/ both on foreign lands and on American soil/ Some serve out of duty/ Some live out and truly embody this thing that's called love/ Love is unforced/ and it runs it's course despite the cost and it never comes up short
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Verse 2
They told the man who only owns a few scraps/ to pull himself up/ by his own boot straps/ Now he can't even find two boots that match/ So tell me how he's supposed to do that?/ No love/ They told the boy with his clothes all torn/ early one morn' to stay well and be warm/ Ok, they didn't ignore'm but was it that they couldn't or that they wouldn't do a little more for him?/ The father of the family of five,/ he's jugglin' jobs,/ struggling to keep his family alive/ Tryin' to hold on to his family ties/ 'Needs to be lovingly/ nudged to bring his whole family to God/ It's not all sob stories/ there's a lot of activity that could bring God the Glory/ Often donations are made/ or time is spent with orphans or with patients with AIDS/ This is love in action/ Sometimes love is tough actin' like Tenactin/ 'Cause even when it hurts/ love will still choose to speak the truth/ and won't remain hidden/ instead of bringing reproof
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Verse 3
They're those who give freely/ It's easy for them to share the love that they have with the needy/ Then there's the greedy/ You gotta earn every smile they give and you never catch a freebee/ What is it that makes one man give/ and makes another man/ put a lock on his/ and say, "I'm not gon' give"?/ Maybe it's the difference in the way that he thinks God forgives/ What he thinks he sees, he does such/ If he sees he's been forgiven much, he loves much/ But if he thinks his sins are mad small/ then he's never seen love so he can't give it at all/ To him it's just as if he's earned everything that he has and he never needed a gift and he made it without love/ But what is it that he has that hasn't actually come down to him from above?
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