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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)
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)
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar, edited by grindhouse815
The Look of Love Lyrics as written by Madonna Louise Ciccone Madonna Ciccone
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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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!