From the recording Family Portraits (Volume IV)
We all have people in our lives who seem to rock up only when they need something. A song lamenting transactional relationships.
Lyrics
Quid-Pro-Quo
You like to keep things transactional
You never show but still you want it all
You never write
You never call
You steal fleeting visits in the night
En route to a life that’s elsewhere
You, yeah you rarely share
You take the money
Leave us
Wanting more
More and more
Oh!
Quid-pro-quo
How can I show you?
Love is more than barter
Love is unconditional
You like to think you’re rock-and-roll
You act as if you are so in control
You never phone unless you want to know something
Then you turn away again
Away from here
And when
Will we see your again?
I don’t know
When you’ll next show
Pass Go!
All I know is that
I miss you so...
Oh!
Quid-pro-quo
How can I show you?
Love is more than barter
Love is unconditional
Oh!
Quid-pro-quo
How can I show you?
Love is more than barter
Love is unconditional
Not quid-pro-quo
But unconditional
Not quid-pro-quo
But unconditional