LOOKING FOR LOVE
(Richard Carpenter 1966)

Karen Carpenter 1966

Most agree that this melody/lyric is significant because it forms half (the
A-side) of the first record ever written, sung and released by the then new duo,
‘The Carpenters’. 

(see elsewhere in ILP for ‘I’ll Be Yours’, the B-side.)


Always have said there is a thing called love
And in my life, I said the word a thousand times
Looking around I can see lovers, lost in a world that's all their own
Though people say love is everywhere,
I'm looking for love, but it's just not there.

(bridge)

I live my life growing from day to day
Hoping I'll find someone who cares
For though people say love is everywhere,
I'm looking for love, but it's just not there.
I'm looking for love, but it's just not there.



(Transcribed by David Story - October 2013)