Is Your Love in Vain?

Here's an unrecorded song. See if you can guess which one it is.¹

Do you love me or are you just extending goodwill?

Do you need me half as bad as you say or are you just feeling guilt?

I've been burned before and I know the score, so you won't hear me complain.

Will I be able to count on you or is your love in vain?

Are you so fast that you cannot see that I must have solitude?

When I am in the darkness, why must you intrude?

Do you know my world, do you know my kind, or must I explain?

Will you let me be myself or is your love in vain?

Well, I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind,

I've been in and out of happiness,

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings,

And I've never been too impressed.

Alright, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you.

If I'm a fool, you can have the night – you can have the morning, too.

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain?

Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain?

Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Thank you.

¹ This comment elicits laughter from the audience. While the song was recorded and included on Street Legal, the concert in which this performance takes place occurred a few months prior to the release of that album.