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The Look Of Love Lyrics
Should have left you standing right where you stood
Should have let you go
Should have had the sense to know
Like a train you'd come
And I'd lose my place
Now I'm on this trip
I took a fall from grace
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
I've had a map laid out
From the day I was born
But the roads are blocked
And the paper is worn
And all the books I've read
And the things I know
Never taught me to laugh
Never taught to let go
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
My conscience is clear, I know right from wrong
That's a lie, I know nothing except that you're gone
But there's more to learn from the look in your eyes
That trip round this world, the stars in the sky
Now all the books I've read
And the things I know
Never taught me to live
Never taught me to let go
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
Lord knows I've tried
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
(Nowhere to hide)
(No place to run)
(Nowhere to hide)
(No place to run)
(Nowhere to hide)
Should have let you go
Should have had the sense to know
Like a train you'd come
And I'd lose my place
Now I'm on this trip
I took a fall from grace
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
I've had a map laid out
From the day I was born
But the roads are blocked
And the paper is worn
And all the books I've read
And the things I know
Never taught me to laugh
Never taught to let go
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
My conscience is clear, I know right from wrong
That's a lie, I know nothing except that you're gone
But there's more to learn from the look in your eyes
That trip round this world, the stars in the sky
Now all the books I've read
And the things I know
Never taught me to live
Never taught me to let go
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
From the eyes of pride
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From the look of love
Lord knows I've tried
Nowhere to go
No place to run
From the look of love
Now I've come undone
(Nowhere to hide)
(No place to run)
(Nowhere to hide)
(No place to run)
(Nowhere to hide)
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This is a very sad song... I think is about depression, about how sad can become a person when has a love deception…
Im not sure what this song is about but I think its more profound then people realise
Again, as is the case of Madonna Louise Ciccone, The Look of Love is a beautiful I-lost-my-mother-and-I'm-Still-Wet-and-Sad-I'm-going-insane ballad. Indeed, The Look of Love is a song shot through with existential sadness. In this beautiful ballad, her voice trembles, seethes and beseeches with bittersweet emotion as only Madonna can convey and articulate. Crying in Sad and Wet Tears-in The Look of Love, Madonna gives a beautifully sad, melancholy, tender and understated performance here. Even when the writing isn't her best, there is an impassioned urgency in her voice and it makes me wish I had wanted to go to the Who's That Girl? performance-of Which The Look of Love is a definite highlight a quarter-century after its release. Stunning. Timeless. Immortal-just like Madonna herself. That inner spark and little fire in her Kabbalah Heart is still alive in her. Finally, in The Look of Love, Madonna cries sadly but in an uncommonly beautiful way. One of my all time Madonna favorites, that's the Look of Love-Madonna's outright sadness is the key to her existence-and this lovely Ciccone ballad. In the Evidence of Her Brilliance!-Madonna Forever!
Since I'm Italian, I hope you won't mind my mistakes in English... I think this song is about someone who started a new relationship knowing that somehow it could be dangerous to trust the other one. But ignoring that feeling, she has given all herself to that man and then she comes undone. She tries to justify herself saying that even if she knew he'd have destroyed her, she couldn't hide anywhere because there's no way to run away from love. She says that she's learnt her lesson, that next time she'll be able to tell good from wrong but she knows she's lying because once you're in love, you know nothing anymore. She says that no matter how experienced she thinks she is, books and previous experiences won't be useful... Because they never taught her how to live happily and how to let go the things that made her life sad.