Lyrics to
Last Love Song

This version of Last Love Song was released by Cat Stevens in 1978.

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If you don’t love me
Please don’t treat me this way
Cause I can’t stand it
I see our love slipping away
Did you think you could just put me down
Like a worn out shoe
Cause if you don’t want me
Maybe I don’t want you

If you don’t need me
Don’t leave me out in the cold
Eyes drifting by me
Like somebody you don’t know
Did you think that you could just walk away
Anytime you wanted to
Cause if you don’t love me
Maybe I don’t love you

Did you think that you could just put me down
For somebody new
Cause nobody can love you girl like I do
Every little bird in the sky
Would sing a song of love

If you would just take me back
Come on open up your heart again
Let me in baby baby

If you don’t love me
Stop fooling yourself
No more acting
I know your show too well
Did you think that you could just shake my hand
With a how d’y’do
Cause if you don’t want me
Maybe I don’t want you

Oh and as you go through life
It’s the little things that come back again
If you came back again
You know i’d give my loving to you

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Cat Stevens has released many songs over the years besides Last Love Song. Cat Stevens released songs from 1967 to 1978 spanning across albums like New Masters, Matthew & Son, Tea For The Tillerman, Mona Bone Jakon, Teaser And The Firecat, Catch Bull At Four, Foreigner, Buddha And The Chocolate Box, Numbers, Izitso, and Back To Earth. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Cat Stevens.

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The lyrics for Last Love Song are defined as the words making up the song released by Cat Stevens in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Last Love Song have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Cat Stevens and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Last Love Song by Cat Stevens if you think through it. 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 Last Love Song" means the words set to the music of Last Love Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Last Love Song and the lyrics to Last Love Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Last Love Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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