Love is fast, love is slow
Love always knows where it wants to go
Love can be old and love can be so new
Love is what you make and love is what you do

Love’s a roller coaster, running on track
Don’t look down and never look back
Love is the engine that gets you up the hill
Love is the speed and the noise and the thrill

CHORUS:
Oh, love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Oh, love’s the only ride

INTERLUDE: G F Am G C G F G C

Love fights back and love gives in
Love’s no saint, sure ain’t no sin
Love can be soft and love can be tough
Too much love is never enough

Love is the dance that you stumble through
A little Texas Two Step, a little Tango too
Move with me baby, get closer to me
A little dancing and kissing is all we need

CHORUS:
Oh, love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Oh, love’s the only ride

INTERLUDE: G F Am G C G F G C

CHORUS:
Oh, love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Love is the ride, if you’re riding with me
Oh, love’s the only ride, hmm hmm
Love’s the only ride

OUTRO: (## 2x – fade to end ##)

We were sitting in a café
You were listening like you had nothing better to do
You were feigning interest badly
I guess interest is too hard for you

I stopped talking and just watched you
Watched the way your mouth made faces at me
Watched the way your eyes looked through me
Looking for something new you could take from me

CHORUS:
And I know what you are
You’re the thief who steals from your friends
I know what you are
And everything in the world does not belong to you

INTERLUDE: C Am F G C Am F G

All the things you ever gave me
Were just scrps you didn’t want anyway
All the people you discarded
Well I guess you never thought you might want them back some day

I’ve been loyal, I’ve been honest
Tell you the truth, I don’t know what for
I’ve knelt down with all the others
Well, I’m not on my knees anymore

CHORUS:
And I know what you are
You’re the thief who steals from your friends
I know what you are
And everything in the world does not belong to you
Not you, not you

INTERLUDE: C Am F G

BRIDGE:
Last night in the dark, in my mirror

I thought I saw you
I threw the mirror on the floor
It kept breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking

CHORUS:
And I know what you are
You’re the thief who steals from your friends
I know what you are
And everything in the world does not belong to you

CHORUS:
I know what you are
You’re the thief who steals from your friends
I know what you are
And everything in the world does not belong to you
Not me, not him, not her
Not every single thing in the world
Not me, not him, not her
Not every single thing in the world

OUTRO:
(I know what you are)
Not me, not him, not her
Not everything in the world

INTRO: G C G C G C G C

As I walk through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, is all hope lost
Is there only pain and hatred and misery
And each time I feel like [G/F#]this inside
[G/F]Just one thing I wanna know
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, oh
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

INTERLUDE: G C G C G C G C

As I walk on through troubled times
My spirit gets so down-hearted sometimes
So, where are the strong and who are the trusted
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony
‘Cause each time I feel it [G/F#]slipping away
[G/F]Just makes me want to cry
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, oh
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

INSTRUMENTAL:

So, where are the strong and who are the trusted
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony
‘Cause each time I feel it [G/F#]slipping away
[G/F]Just makes me want to cry
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, ohh
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, ohh
What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

INTRO: C Am D G (2x)

Come all ye lads of high renown
And would hear of a fair young maiden
And she rode out of a summer’s day
For to view the soldiers parading
They marched so bold and they looked so ga-ay
The colours flying and the bands did play
And it caused young Mary for to say
“I’ll wed you, my gallant soldier”

And she viewed the soldiers on parade
And as they stood at their leisure
And Mary to herself did say
“At last I’ve found my treasure
But oh, how cruel my parents must be-e
To banish my darling so far from me
But I’ll leave them all and I’ll go with thee
You wild, undaunted soldier”

INTERLUDE: C Am D G (2x)

“Oh, Mary dear, your parents love
I pray don’t be unruly
For when you’re in a foreign land
Believe me, you’ll rue it surely
And if in battle I might fall_
By a shot from an angry cannonball
And you so far from your daddy’s hall
Be advised by your gallant soldier”

INSTRUMENTAL: G C G D G C G D G D G

“And I have fifty guineas in bright gold
Likewise, a heart that’s bolder
And I’ll leave them all and I’ll go with you
You wild, undaunted soldier
So don’t say no, but let me go-o
And I will face the daring foe
And we’ll march together, to and fro
And I’ll wed you, my gallant soldier”

INTERLUDE: C Am G D G (2x)

And when he saw her loyalty
And Mary so true hearted
He said, “Then darling, married we’ll be
And nothing but death will part us
And when we’re in a foreign land_
I’ll guard you darling, with my right hand
In the hopes that god might stand a friend
To Mary and her gallant soldier
In the hopes that god might stand a friend
To Mary and her gallant so-ol-dier”