By Kenny Rogers I'll write myself a simple song Get the whole world to sing along I'll call it a love song for you And who knows, I'm liable To take a song from the Bible And then when I'm through I'll just sing: Love lifted me Love lifted me When nothing else would do You know love lifted me Everybody's lookin' for a way To say something everybody's sayin' Well, that's hard to do A-searchin' their minds, tryin' to find The one of a kind way That they could say something new