Lyrics to
Can’t Depend On Love

This version of Can’T Depend On Love was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1972.

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I spent most of my life outside in the drivin’ rain
I was only trying to get my with some of life’s amenities
Well nothin’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

I spent most of my life outside in the drivin’ rain
I was in some one-horse town just waitin’ 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

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The lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Gordon Lightfoot used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Gordon Lightfoot and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love by Gordon Lightfoot. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love" means the words set to the music of Can’T Depend On Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gordon Lightfoot. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Can’T Depend On Love and the lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gordon Lightfoot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Can’T Depend On Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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