Love Takes Time Lyrics
I had it all
But I let it slip away
Couldn't see I treated you wrong
Now I wander around
Feeling down and cold
Trying to believe that you're gone
[Chorus]
Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't wanna be here
I don't wanna be here alone
[Verse 2]
Losing my mind
From this hollow in my heart
Suddenly I'm so incomplete
Lord I'm need you now
Tell me how to stop the rain
Tears are falling down endlessly
Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't wanna be here
I don't wanna be here alone
[Bridge]
You might say that it's over
You might say that you don't care
You might say you don't miss me
You don't need me
But I know that you do and I feel that you do
Inside
[Chorus]
Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was so blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't wanna be there
I don't wanna be there alone
About
The second #1 song from her self-titled debut album. Produced by Walter Afanasieff, it was released September 11, 1990 and spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100.
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I had just finished my album and I was out promoting it on a sort of a little mini tour, and I went home one weekend and I wrote a song with my writing partner, Ben Margulies, called “Love Takes Time,” and I went to the next city and it was just sort of business as usual. My record was being mastered, actually it was mastered and it was ready, being pressed, so I was all excited and I just said to one of the executives from the label, ‘Here listen to this, this is what I’m starting to write for my next album.’ And a bunch of them sat around and they listened to it and one of them looked up at me and said, ‘This is a #1 record, you have to put this on this album.‘ And I was like no! It took me so long to finish the first album, I’m done with this finally, and then I had to go back into the studio. Luckily I took their advice, because “Love Takes Time” became my second #1 single, so thank God I did it!
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