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You can be a righteous rocker or a holy roller
You can be 'most anything
You can be a Leon Russell or a super muscle
You can be a corporate king
You can be a wealthy man from Texas
Or a witch with heavy hexes

But without love
You ain't nothing without love
Without love
You ain't nothing without love

You can be a brilliant surgeon or a sweet young virgin
Or a harlot out to sell
You can learn to play the blues or be Howard Hughes
Or the Scarlet Pimpernel
You can be a French provincial midwife
Or go from door to door with a death knife

But without love
You ain't nothing without love
Without love
You ain't nothing without love

Without love
You ain't nothing without love (you ain't nothing without love) oh no
Without love
You ain't nothing without love

Break

Hoo hoo hoo ooh ooh

Oh, you can be a woman feeler
Or a baby stealer
You can drink your life away
You can be a holy prophet
Get a blessing off it
You can fast for fifty days
You can shake hands with the devil
Or give your life to God on the level

But without love
You ain't nothing without love (you ain't nothing without love)
Without love
You ain’t nothing without love

Without love
You ain't nothing without love (you ain't nothing without love)
Without love
You ain’t nothing without love

You can be a righteous rocker (without love you ain't nothing without love)
That's right (without love you ain't nothing without love)
You can be a holy roller
But you ain't nothing without love (without love you ain't nothing without love) without love
(Without love you ain't nothing without love) Forget your hexagram, you'll soon feel fine
(Without love you ain't nothing without love) Stop looking at the stars, you don't live under the signs
(Without love you ain't nothing without love) Don't mess with gypsies or have your fortune read
(Without love without love) Keep your table on the floor and don't you listen to the dead

You can't hitch-hike your way to heaven, the devil's closed the road
You live once, you die once, with no reincarnate episode
You can't hitch-hike to heaven or get there by being good
The rules were set down long ago when the spikes went in the wood
The rules were set down long ago when the spikes went in the wood, ah
The rules were set down long ago when the spikes went in the wood

(Without love you ain't nothing, you ain't nothing without love)
(Without love you ain't nothing without love) There ain't no getting around it
Without love you're nothing
Without love you ain't nothing without love
Without love you ain't nothing without love

Without love you ain't nothing (you ain't nothing without love) you ain't nothing, you ain't nothing without love
(Without love you ain't nothing without love)
(Without love you ain't nothing without love)
(Without love you)