Lyrics to
Love’s Gone Bad

This version of Love’S Gone Bad was released by Jackson 5 in 1979.

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Ah I feel a fountain in my brain
Ice-cold water runnin’ through my pain
Got a bad taste in my mouth from bitter tears
Heart feel sad ’cause Love’s Gone Bad

I see a rainbow all in black
Must be a sign you ain’t comin’ back
Wake up at night callin’ your name
I see a face on my window pane
I’ve been this way since you’ve been gone
Without your love, I can’t go on
Look in the mirror, what do I see?
A cryin’ face, kinda looks like me
Now where’s the love you promised me?
Where’s the tenderness to comfort me?

Everytime some love I choose
I seem to always be the one to lose
Bad taste in my mouth from bitter tears
Heart feels sad ’cause Love’s Gone Bad
Love’s Gone Bad, heart feels sad

Ooh, Black cruel signing up above
It’s a sign I live my life without love
Signs on the man, slime’s on the sea
Signs everywhere I said I’m destined to be
And if the world baby nothing’s right
Since you’ve been gone baby
Can’t sleep at night
You said you’d be true to me
Instead you made a fool of me
Heart feel sad, Love’s Gone Bad

Ouw…

Auw, Love’s Gone Bad
Heart feel sad
Love’s gone Bad
Heart feel sad
Auw!! Ouw…

Ooh, Love’s Gone Bad
Heart feel sad
Love’s Gone Bad
Love’s Gone Bad
Auw!!
Love’s Gone Bad
Love’s Gone Bad
Come on!!!

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About Lyrics and Love’S Gone Bad by Jackson 5

The lyrics for Love’S Gone Bad are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Jackson 5. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Love’S Gone Bad have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Love’S Gone Bad - Jackson 5 and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Love’S Gone Bad by Jackson 5 in multiple ways. 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 Love’S Gone Bad" means the words set to the music of Love’S Gone Bad, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Love’S Gone Bad and the lyrics to Love’S Gone Bad are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Love’S Gone Bad, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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