Lyrics to
I Need Love

This version of I Need Love was released by Deep Purple in 1975.

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I keep singing the same old song
Like I did before
When you left me
You left me in darkness
I’d never known before
I was restless
A fool for your time
Waiting ’round for you to call
But now I’ve found me
An angel of mercy
I don’t feel bad at all

Your body was honey
I tasted a lot
But let me tell you babe
I need more than you got
I want someone to hold me
An’ keep me satisfied
I need love

I’ve got nothing to do
Ain’t got nothing to say
Just live your life
The way you know
When you moved on
You took all the sweetness
Was I a fool to let you go
With the woman I forget for the moment
All the times we knew before
Tho I’m still singing
The same old love song
I don’t want you knocking on my door

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About Lyrics and I Need Love by Deep Purple

The lyrics for I Need Love are defined as the words making up the song released by Deep Purple in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I Need Love have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Deep Purple and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to I Need Love by Deep Purple if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Need Love" means the words set to the music of I Need Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Deep Purple. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Need Love and the lyrics to I Need Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Deep Purple who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Need Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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