Dexys Midnight Runners Songs - I Love You (Listen to This) Lyrics

Dexys Midnight Runners - I Love You (Listen to This)

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Album: Don't Stand Me Down
Released: 1985

I Love You (Listen to This) Lyrics

I was thinking of a compromise
When I saw the beauty in your eyes
It heightened something in me so I'll say so
You were always near to me,
And thoughts of you will stay with me
Oh oh oh, until the day I die

You were standing next to me,
In '82 and '83,
In all that time I barely proved I love you
Well there's nothing wrong but the wrong in me
You were everything you were meant to be,
And oh oh oh oh oh oh

Now I just want to say this to you
Listen to this, listen to this,
I want to say this to you
You never know, oh oh
(Here we go)
I love you, I love you
I love you, and it's true and it's true and it's true

I love you, I love you
I love you, and it's true and it's true and it's true

Did you know that I loved you from the start
You didn't care about my words and why should you?
You didn't know that all the time I loved you so

I love you, I love you
I love you, and it's true and it's true and it's true

Writer/s: Cotton, Gene / Adams, Greg
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Love You (Listen to This) Song Chart

Originally titled "Listen To This" on the 1985 release of Don't Stand Me Down, the song was given its new title on the 1996 "Director's cut" reissue of the album.

Vocalist Kevin Rowland told The Guardian about the genesis of this song. "We'd been to America, doing interviews all day long, meeting the record company – and you're supposed to do a gig after that," he recalled. "It was demeaning. I was dragging the songs out live, trying to find an intensity in them that I never could, and it all seemed a bit empty really. I felt we were compromising."

"Then I fell in love. I was torn: obsessed with her but not enjoying the band," he continued. "The opening line – 'I was thinking of a compromise when I saw the beauty in your eyes' – just came out."

The Dexys performed this in September 1985 on the UK Channel 4 music show The Tube.