“Who Killed Love” from Blue Guitars - Album Number Eleven - '60s and '70s
Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14, 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics.
The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1½ years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of twelve hours a day, seven days a week.
Initially the project was inspired by Bill Wyman's "Blues Odyssey" and can be called an "odyssey" in its own right, for depicting a journey through the various epochs of Blues Music, starting at its African origins and finishing with modern-time Blues from the 60s and 70s.
Subsequently the eleven CDs are titled the following: "Beginnings", "Country Blues", "Louisiana & New Orleans", "Electric Memphis Blues", "Texas Blues", "Chicago Blues", "Blues Ballads", "Gospel Soul Blues & Motown", "Celtic & Irish Blues", "Latin Blues" and "60s & 70s".
Lyrics:
These streets of tears
Are all that's left to see
Somebody made them
Now it's our destiny
Down on the corner
A cruel wind that blows
Where the gentle smile was lost
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Now you can die out there
By the company wall
Nobody gonna help you
If you stumble and fall
So tell me who
Who killed love
Oh won't you tell me
Who, who killed love
Don't let this chance get away
Why don't you leave some
Heat to say you passed this way
They all looking for money
They all looking to be
Somebody who gets away
Somebody who breaks free
But they're building their dreams
On a broken old floor
They can't get one cent ahead
Each single day a little more
Everybody crying
Everybody blue
You try to find some kind of peace
Before the night was through
Building up the pressure
Losing every day
Jesus asked the question
But they looked the other way
So tell me who
Who killed love
Say a prayer for the lonely
For the sad and the blue
Say a prayer for me while your on your knees
And I'll say a prayer for you
Say a prayer for the broken
Say a prayer for the old
Say a prayer for each other
While we save all our souls
No tell me who
Who killed love
Oh won't you tell me please
Who, who killed love?
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