What If We Were Running Out Of Love Song Lyrics and Chords
What If We Were Running Out Of Love Song Lyrics and Chords by Tanya Tucker
What If We Were Running Out Of Love
Recorded by Tanya Tucker
Written by Linda Hargrove
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Everybody's wonderin' how this
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world will get around
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Now that we're all runnin' out of
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gas
But me I'm kinda happy that this
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world is slowin' down
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Seems to me we were movin' much too
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fast
Now
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folks you're gonna have to slow it
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down (slow it down)
But
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that won't stop this world from goin'
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round
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Well I could think of a whole lot worse of
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things to be out
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of
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What if we were running out of
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love
Now everybody's thinking that this
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world will fall apart
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Cause we ain't got no fuel to feed the
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flame
But what if we all lost the love we
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use to fill our hearts
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Seems to me life wouldn't be the
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same
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Now everybody's wonderin' just how
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cold it's gonna get
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How they're gonna keep each other
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warm
The simplest solution to the
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problem I've seen yet
Is
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cuddle up with someone in your
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arms
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What if we were running out of
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love
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What if we were running out of
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FAQ
Who sang the the song What If We Were Running Out Of Love?
- The song What If We Were Running Out Of Love was sang by Tanya Tucker.
Who is Tanya Tucker?
- Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down", 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman", 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend", and 1992's "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane". Tucker's 2019 album While I'm Livin' won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and "Bring My Flowers Now" from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.
