Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes Songs - The Love I Lost Lyrics

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - The Love I Lost

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - The Love I Lost Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 1973

The Love I Lost Lyrics

[Chorus]
The Love I Lost
Was a sweet love
The love I lost
Was complete love
The love I lost
I will never no no never
Love again ooh

I can remember planning
Building my whole world around you
And I can remember hoping
That you and I could make it on through
But something went wrong
We loved each other
We just couldn't get along
Take a good look at me
I'm in misery, can't you see

The love I lost (the love, the love I lost)
Was a sweet love (yes it was)
The love I lost (the love, the love I lost)
Was complete love
The love I lost
I will never no no never
Love again

I can't remember nothing, no no no
But the good times we used to share (my love)
I'm so sad and lonely
Without you my life is so dead
I'm sorry to say
You go your way and I'll go my way
It hurts deep inside
The day we said goodbye, but

[Chorus]
The love I lost (the love, the love I lost)
Was a sweet love (yes it was)
The love I lost
Was complete love
The love I lost
I will never (never) no no never
(Never) love again (I'll never love again)

I will never (never) no no never
(Never) love again ooh ooh ooh ooh
I will never (never) no no never
(Never) love again

Never (never) no no never [Repeat until fade]

Writer/s: GAMBLE, KENNY / HUFF, LEON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Love I Lost

This was originally a slow, painful ballad. It was sped up as an experiment, and a major hit ensued. Co-writer Kenny Gamble recalled to Mojo magazine March 2012: "It was a ballad when we wrote it. We got in the studio and said, This is dragging, it's too slow. We told Karl (Chambers, drummer) to put that 'tsh-up, tsh-up,' that sock cymbal in there and that was the beginning of that whole Philly disco sound."

Karl Chambers was used solely on the sock cymbal. Philadelphia-based drummer Earl Young played the full kit. He is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps, who had a hit record with "Disco Inferno."

American R&B/pop singer Sybil had a #3 hit in the UK with her 1993 cover of this song. It was billed as West End featuring Sybil.