Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Mad-Eyes - Madonna single lyrics, Mondino

LOVE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Lyrics

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore

When you lived inside of me
There was nothing I could conceive
That you wouldn't do for me
Troubles seemed so far away
You changed that right away
Baby

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore

Love don't live here anymore
Just emptiness and memories
Of what we had before
You went away
Found another place to stay
Another home

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore

In the windmills of my eyes
Everyone can see
The loneliness inside me
Why'd ya have to go away
Don't you know I miss you so
And need your love

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Live here anymore
Love don't live here anymore
Don't live here anymore
No no, don't, don't live here anymore

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
No, it don't live here anymore
Love don't live here anymore
It don't live here anymore

Credits

Written by Miles Gregory
Produced by Nile Rodgers
Bass by Bernard Edwards
Electric and acoustic guitar by Nile Rodgers
Assorted synthesizers and bass synthesizer by Rob Sabino
Drums by Tony Thompson
Background vocals by Madonna, Curtis King, Frank Simms and George Simms
Strings contracted by Karen Milne and Kermit Moore
Arranged and conducted by Nile Rodgers

For Something To Remember:
Remix produced, engineered and mixed by David Reitzas
Remix keyboards performed by Jan Mullaney

Album

Like A Virgin

Something To Remember

Single

In 1984 Madonna made a cover of this Rose Royce classic. Alledgedly it was a personal favorite of hers and in 1995 she included the song - in a slightly remixed version - in Something To Remember and released it as a single in March 1996. But obviously nobody had been waiting for the release of a 12-year old cover song; in its first week it couldn't even get into the US Hot 100. Eventually it crawled up to #78, making it one of Madonna's biggest chart flops.

Video

Probably one of the reasons why the single flopped was the rather lame video by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. The video (set to the Soulpower Remix) was shot in the middle of the Evita filming, so Madonna only spend two days filming it. The video is basically one long shot of Madonna in a big marble room with waving curtains, where she's yearning for love. Most fans agree it's Madonna's most boring video, a far cry from masterpieces as Express Yourself, Bad Girl or Bedtime Story.
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