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Regardless of the production issues the lyrics of I Need Your Love are heart-felt and contrite from the lack of love in life. The singer is expressive, tender, and freely desires love for someone who broke through his coldness. Hunter feels that the song never really made it. He thinks it is dreary but he persisted; the drums and bass have no spark and it didn't sound like Ian heard it in his head. Perhaps surprisingly, the single went Top 50 in one American chart.
The song is one originating from the uneven Short Back and Sides effort but there is also an alternate version and a live version from the 1981 Dr. Pepper Music Festival.
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I Need Your Love
(Ian Hunter)
It was a cold, cold house,
I was a cold, cold room.
No one lived in me.
I was an empty tune.
Lovers came to view
'n' they looked all around.
But they couldn't see nothin',
nothin but the ground, they really put me down
and then someone broke
inside of me
and I found myself learnin'
how to fight free.
And it feels so good
when I can turn to you
'n' look you straight in the eye,
say I need you, need you, oh I need you
I need your love, baby,
I need your love, I gotta hear your name
over and over, over again.
I need your love, baby,
I need your love, I got you up my brain
over, over, over again.
You know it hurts so bad
when you have to say
you ain't got nobody
and then one day
it makes you feel so good
when I can turn to you
and look you straight in the eye,
say I need you, need you, oh I need you
I need your love, baby,
I need your love, I wanna hear your name
over and over, over again.
I need your love,
oh how I need your love, I gotta hear your name
over, over, over again, yeah.
I need your love, baby
I need your love, I gotta hear your name
over, over, over again.
I Need Your Love | 3:36 | Originally issued on Short Back and Sides, also on the compilations The Collection and From The Knees Of My Heart. |
I Need Your Love (rough mix) | 3:49 | An alternate version of I Need Your Love was issued on the outtakes CD Long Odds and Outtakes and on the box set version of Short Back 'n' Sides |
I Need Your Love (live 11th September 1981) | 6:48 | This live version (recorded Dr. Pepper Music Festival, Pier 84, New York NY) was originally issued on the Ian Hunter Rocks video (VHS/Laserdisc only). The video (DVD) can also be found on It Never Happened (box set only); the audio can be found on From The Knees Of My Heart (not on the box set). |