I Want You - Mad-Eyes - Madonna Marvin Gaye cover lyrics, Nellee Hooper, Massive Attack

I WANT YOU

Lyrics

I want you
The right way
I want you
But I want you to want me too
Want you to want me baby
Just like I want you
Da da da da da da da

I'll give you all the love
I want in return
But half a love
Is all I feel
Sweet darling

It's too bad
It's just too sad
You don't want me no more
But I'm gonna change your mind
Some way, somehow

I want you
The right way
I want you
But I want you to want me too
Want you to want me baby
Just like I want you
Da da da da da da da

One way love
Is just a fantasy
To share is precious
Pure and fair

Don't play with something
You should cherish for life
Oh baby
Don't you wanna care
Ain't it lonely out there

I want you
The right way
I want you
But I want you to want me too
Want you to want me baby
Just like I want you

I want you
The right way
I want you
But I want you to want me too
Want me baby
Just like I want you
Da da da da da da da

I want you
The right way

Want me baby

Don't play with something
You should cherish for life

Credits

Written by Leon Ware and T-Boy Ross
Produced by Nellee Hooper
Featuring Massive Attack

Album

Inner City Blues

Something To Remember

Song

Madonna contributed her cover of this 1976 Marvin Gaye tune to the 1995 tribute album Inner City Blues - The music of Marvin Gaye. Later that year it was added to the ballads collection Something To Remember. On the latter, two different versions can be found; the original version and an orchestral version, both featuring British band Massive Attack. The song was originally planned as the first single for both albums. However, since both albums appeared on different labels, these release plans were problematic. Although Junior Vasquez made remixes of the song, they were never officially released, nor was the song promoted to radio. Consequently I Want You never got into the charts.

Video

Although there wasn't a proper single release, I Want You did get a video. In August 1995, fashion photographer Earle Sebastian filmed Madonna in an apartment in New York City. In the black & white video Madonna yearns for love, hesitating to pick up the phone to call her lover. In September 1995 the video was seen a few times on VH1, reaching #11 on the VH1 monitor. It was never shown on MTV. Both music channels quickly forgot about I Want You when the successful You'll See was released in November.

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