Released: October 30, 1976
Songwriter: Chris Christian John Farrar
Producer: John Farrar
Love you were kind and much older
Foolish but wiser than me
Am I becoming an anchor
Holding you back from the sea
Restlessly you stand there, crying silently
It must be so hard being easy on me
Compassionate man, so gentle
Trying hard to shelter me
Compassionate man, so kind
But the bottom line will be what it will be
You're leaving me, leaving me
Love, my whole life was a desert
Then gently your love fell like rain
We lived for awhile in a garden
But now I'm a desert again
Come right out and say it
Tell me honestly
It must be so hard being easy on me
Compassionate man, so gentle
Trying hard to shelter me
Compassionate man, so kind
But the bottom line will be what it will be
You're leaving me, leaving me
You're leaving me
You're leaving me
You're leaving me
Foolish but wiser than me
Am I becoming an anchor
Holding you back from the sea
Restlessly you stand there, crying silently
It must be so hard being easy on me
Compassionate man, so gentle
Trying hard to shelter me
Compassionate man, so kind
But the bottom line will be what it will be
You're leaving me, leaving me
Love, my whole life was a desert
Then gently your love fell like rain
We lived for awhile in a garden
But now I'm a desert again
Come right out and say it
Tell me honestly
It must be so hard being easy on me
Compassionate man, so gentle
Trying hard to shelter me
Compassionate man, so kind
But the bottom line will be what it will be
You're leaving me, leaving me
You're leaving me
You're leaving me
You're leaving me
more tracks from the album
Don’t Stop Believin’ / Totally Hot
- Talk to Me
- Dancin’ ’Round and ’Round
- Hey Mr. Dreammaker
- Gimme Some Lovin’
- Totally Hot
- Please Don’t Keep Me Waiting
- Compassionate Man
- A Thousand Conversations
- Boats Against the Current
- Never Enough
- A Little More Love
- Love You Hold the Key
- Every Face Tells a Story
- Sam
- The Last Time You Loved
- New-Born Babe
- Deeper Than the Night
- Don’t Stop Believin’
- Borrowed Time
From the albums
- Don’t Stop Believin’ (1976)
- Don’t Stop Believin’ / Totally Hot (1982)
Olivia Newton-John popular songs
- Hopelessly Devoted to You
- Physical
- Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee
- Let Me Be There
- Twist of Fate
- Xanadu
- Magic
- I Honestly Love You
- To Be Wanted
- Not Gonna Be The One
- Please Mr. Please
- The Key
- (Livin’ In) Desperate Times
- It’ll Be Me
- Pony Ride
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
- In a Station
- God Only Knows
- Ring of Fire
- Mary Skeffington
- Send in the Clowns
- Pearls on a Chain
- Hands Across the Sea
- My Old Man’s Got a Gun