Mad Love (1980)

Lyrics as performed by Linda Ronstadt



Mad Love
Party Girl
How Do I Make You
I Can't Let Go
Hurt So Bad
Look Out For My Love
Cost of Love
Justine
Girls Talk
Talking in the Dark
Mad Love

written by Mark Goldenberg
© 1979 Twist Party International (BMI)

If I can't get away from you
What am I gonna do
Cause you hit me just like a dream
Where there's no in-between
Cause I just fall forever
Fall forever in your eyes

Cause it's a mad mad love
Mad mad love
Mad mad love
Can't help falling now
Falling into mad love

Well you're shorting out all my pride
Like fireworks exploding inside
You're just something I can't deny
Why tell me baby why
Cause I just fall forever
Fall forever in your eyes

Cause it's a mad mad love
Mad mad love
Mad mad love
Can't help falling now
Falling into mad love

If I can't get away from you
What am I gonna do
Now you call me up and you're so cool
What d'ya what do you want me to do

Cause it's a mad mad love
Mad mad love
Mad mad love
I can't help it
Mad mad love
Mad mad love
Mad mad love
Can't help falling now
Falling into mad love

Party Girl

written by Elvis Costello
© 1979 Plangent Vision Music (BMI)

They say I'm nothing but a party girl
Just like a million more all over the world
I know I shouldn't be raising my hopes so high
But I have seen the hungry look in their eyes
They'd settle for anything in disguise of love
Seen the party girls look you over
Seen them leaving when the party's over

They can't touch me now
You say you don't mind
We're so hard to find
I could give you anything but time

Give it just one more try
Give it a chance
Starts like fascination
Ends up like a trance

You'll never be the guilty party will you
Maybe someday we can go hiding from this world
Maybe I'll never get over this change in style
But I don't want to lock you up and say you're mine
Don't want to lose you or say good-bye
I'm the guilty party and I want my slice
But I know you've got me in a grip-like vise
They can't touch me now 
You say you don't mind
We're so hard to find
I could give you anything
I would give you anything
I can give you anything but time
Time
Time
Time

How Do I Make You

written by Billy Steinberg
© 1979 Billy Steinberg Music 

You're a doll
Your eyes see all
And how do I make you
How do I make you
How do I make you wanna see me

You're so young
But your feelings are deep
And how do I make you
How do I make you
How do I make you feel for me

You put your head on my pillow
And you're fast asleep
And how do I make you
How do I make you
How do I make you dream about me

Ooh, ooh baby
The world's a wall of ice
You're gonna need someone
To treat you warm and keep you nice

I like the way you dance
The way you spin
And how do I make you
How do I make you
How do I make you spin for me

You put your head on my pillow
And you're fast asleep
And how do I make you
How do I make you
How do I make you dream about me
Dream about me
Dream about me
Wooo dream about me
Dream about me
Wooo dream about me
Dream about me
Wooo dream about me
Dream about me

I Can't Let Go

written by Chip Taylor and Al Gorgon
© 1965 Blackwood Music Inc (BMI)

Oh I tried and I tried but I can't say good-bye
Feel so bad baby
Oh it hurts me
When I think of how you love and desert me
I'm the broken-hearted toy you play with

You got me going
I need you baby
I can't let go
And I want you baby
I gotta have all your love
I can't let go

Though I'm just one of your lovers
And I know there are so many others
You do something strange to me baby

You got me going
I need you baby
I can't let go
And I want you baby
I gotta have all your love
I can't let go

Oh I tried and I tried but I can't say good-bye
I know that it's wrong and I should be so strong
But the thought of you gone
Makes me want to hold on

You got me going
I need you baby
I can't let go
And I want you baby
I gotta have all your love
I can't let go

You got me going
I need you baby
I can't let go
And I want you baby
I gotta have all your love
I can't let go

I can't let go
I can't let go
I can't let go
I can't let go
I can't let go

Hurt So Bad

written by Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Wilding, Bobby Hart
© 1965 Vogue Music (BMI)

I know you
Don't know what I'm going through
Standing here looking at you

Well let me tell you that it hurts so bad
It makes me feel so sad
It makes me hurt so bad to see you again

Like needles and pins
People say "you've been making out okay
He's in love don't stand in his way"

Well let me tell you that it hurts so bad
It makes me feel so sad
It's gonna hurt so bad if you walk away
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Why don't you stay and let me make it up to you
I'll do anything you want me to
You loved me before please love me again
I can't let you go back to her
Please don't go
Please don't go

Please don't go
Please don't go
Hurt so bad
Come back it hurts so bad
Don't make it hurt so bad
I'm begging you please

Oooooh oh oh oh
Come back it hurts so bad
Come back it hurts so bad
I'm begging you please
Oh!   No!
Noooooo!

Look Out For My Love

written by Neil Young
© 1977 Silver Fiddle (BMI)

There's a lot to learn
For wasting time
There's a heart that burns
There's an open mind
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love

You own it
You own it now
You own it

There's a weight on you
But you can't feel it
Living like I do
It's hard for you to see it
Was I hurt too bad
Can I show you daylight
How can I be sad
When I know that you might
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love

Look out for my love
It's in your neighborhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can't say bad or good
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There's a lot to learn
For wasting time
There's a heart that burns
There's an open mind
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love
Look out for my love


Cost of Love

written by Mark Goldenberg
© 1980 Twist Party International (BMI)

You're in deeper than you seem
What you need, what you want
Are not the same thing
I think you're getting sick on the dream

I don't want to see you
Till you know the cost of love
Please don't make me need you
Till you know the cost of love

You told me that we could make it right
Underneath the fear that you would hold me tight
Do you think forevers only last all night

I don't want to see you
Till you know the cost of love
Please don't make me need you
Till you know the cost of love

First it's promises then it's lies
Watch those stares turn to turned-away eyes

You told me that we could make it right
Underneath the fear that you would hold me tight
Do you think forevers only last all night
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I don't want to see you
Till you know the cost of love
Please don't make me need you
Till you know the cost of love

Till you know the cost
Of love
 
Justine

written by Mark Goldenberg
© 1980 Twist Party International (BMI)

This is the one about the girl
The girl who came to stay
Ah but love came down like a hammer and it blew her away
She's sliding down down down
No place to put her hands
But she don't think of nothing but the boys in the hot sand
No

Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do
Justine
You know just what this kiss will mean to you
Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do

I wanted love explained
I had to know what you knew
But the face of Aphrodite is a blank when it looks at you
Your heart does its little tricks
Your feelings burn right through
But the cold wire edge of the whip is all that's left of you
Oh no

Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do
Justine
You know just what this kiss will mean to you
Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do

Oh no
Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do
Justine
You know just what this kiss will mean to you
Justine
Don't forget about the little things our hearts do

Girls Talk

written by Elvis Costello
© 1979 Plangent Vision Muisc Inc (ASCAP)

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder
Thought I heard you mention my name can't you talk any louder
Don't come any closer
Don't come any nearer
My vision of you can't come any clearer
Oh I just wanna hear girls talk

Got a loaded imagination being fired by girls talk
It's a more or less situation inspired by girls talk
But I can't say the words you want to hear
I suppose you're gonna have to play it by ear right here and now

Girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed girls talk 
If they say that it's so don't they think that I know by now
That the word up on everyone's lips stick that you're dedicated
You may not be an old fashioned girl but you're gonna get dated
Was it really murder were you just pretending
Lately I have heard you are the living end

Girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed girls talk 
And they think they know how girls talk
if they say that it's so don't they think that I know by now

But I can't say the words you want to hear
I suppose you're gonna have to play it by ear right here 
There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder
Thought I heard you mention my name can't you talk any louder
Don't come any closer
Don't come any nearer
My vision of you can't come any clearer
Girls talk
And they think they know how girls talk
And they say it's not allowed girls talk
And they think they know how girls talk
Girls talk, girls talk


Talking in the Dark

written by Elvis Costello
© Plangent Vision Music Inc (ASCAP)

I tried again to drive myself insane
I talk to myself but I don't listen
I found out what I was missing

I miss talking in the dark
Without you I'm not conversation
Oh without the sense of the occasion
Oh without you
I miss talking in the dark
When the barking and the biting are through

We can talk like we're in love
Or we can talk above it
We can talk and talk
Until we talk ourselves out of it

I look for the new somebody to abuse
I look at myself but it's so chancy
I see things that I don't fancy

I miss talking in the dark
Without you I'm not conversation
Oh without the sense of the occasion
Oh without you
I miss talking in the dark


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