words and music by Lowell George, Valerie Carter, and Jackson Browne
from the album "Running On Empty" 1977
May be the hardest thing I've ever done
G#o7
was to walk away from you.
Leaving behind the life that we'd begun,
I split myself in two.
Proud and alone, cold as a stone,
rolling down that hill into the night
I could see the surprise
and the hurt in your eyes
there behind each flashing city light.
Love needs a heart. And I need to find
if love needs a heart like mine.
Love won't come near me.
She don't even hear me.
She walks by my vacancy sign.
Love needs a heart, trusting and blind.
I wish that heart was mine.
Proud and alone, cold as a stone,
I'm afraid to believe the things I feel.
I can cry with the best;
I can laugh with the rest,
but I'm never sure when it's real.
And it may be the hardest thing I've ever done.
But apart from all that I hope to find,
where's the heart that's been looking for mine?
I hope it finds me in time.
Love needs a heart.
And I need to find
if love needs a heart like mine.