Love Takes Time Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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
[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

[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

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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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What did Mariah Carey say about "Love Takes Time"?
Genius Answer

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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