Lyrics

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

Just a vacancy

Love don't live here anymore

When you lived inside of me

There was nothing I could conceive

That you wouldn't do for me

Troubles seemed so far away

You changed that right away

Baby

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

Just a vacancy

Love don't live here anymore

Love don't live here anymore

Just emptiness and memories

Of what we had before

You went away

Found another place to stay

Another home

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

Just a vacancy

Love don't live here anymore

In the windmills of my eyes

Everyone can see

The loneliness inside me

Why'd ya have to go away

Don't you know I miss you so

And need your love

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

Just a vacancy

Love don't live here anymore

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

Live here anymore

Love don't live here anymore

Don't live here anymore

No no, don't, don't live here anymore

You abandoned me

Love don't live here anymore

No, it don't live here anymore

Love don't live here anymore

It don't live here anymore

Credits

Written by Miles Gregory

Produced by Nile Rodgers

Bass by Bernard Edwards

Electric and acoustic guitar by Nile Rodgers

Assorted synthesizers and bass synthesizer by Rob Sabino

Drums by Tony Thompson

Background vocals by Madonna, Curtis King, Frank Simms and George Simms

Strings contracted by Karen Milne and Kermit Moore

Arranged and conducted by Nile Rodgers

For Something To Remember:

Remix produced, engineered and mixed by David Reitzas

Remix keyboards performed by Jan Mullaney

Album

Like A Virgin

Something To Remember

Single

In 1984 Madonna made a cover of this Rose Royce classic. Alledgedly it was a personal favorite of hers and in 1995 she included the song - in a slightly remixed version - in Something To Remember and released it as a single in March 1996. But obviously nobody had been waiting for the release of a 12-year old cover song; in its first week it couldn't even get into the US Hot 100. Eventually it crawled up to #78, making it one of Madonna's biggest chart flops.

Video

Probably one of the reasons why the single flopped was the rather lame video by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. The video (set to the Soulpower Remix) was shot in the middle of the Evita filming, so Madonna only spend two days filming it. The video is basically one long shot of Madonna in a big marble room with waving curtains, where she's yearning for love. Most fans agree it's Madonna's most boring video, a far cry from masterpieces as Express Yourself, Bad Girl or Bedtime Story.