Leave A Light On

Album: Runaway Horses (1989)
Charted: 4 11
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  • Take my hand
    Tell me what you're feeling
    Understand
    This is just the beginning

    Although I have to go
    It makes me feel like crying
    I don't know when I'll see you again

    Darling, leave a light on for me
    I'll be there before you close the door
    To give you all the love that you need

    Darling, leave a light on for me
    'Cause when the world takes me away
    You are still the air that I breathe

    I can't explain, I don't know
    Just how far I have to go
    But darling I'll keep the key
    Just leave the light on for me

    Yes, I know
    What I'm asking is crazy
    You could go
    Just get tired of waiting

    But if I lose your love (lose your love)
    Torn out by my desire
    That would be the one regret of my life

    Darling leave a light on for me
    I'll be there before you close the door
    To give you all the love that you need

    Darling leave a light on for me
    'Cause when the world takes me away
    You are still the air that I breathe

    I can't explain, I don't know
    Just how far I have to go
    But darling I'll keep the key
    Just leave a light on for me

    Just like a spark lights up the dark
    Baby that's your heart
    Baby that's your heart
    Baby that's your heart

    Darling leave a light on for me
    I'll be there before you close the door
    To give you all the love that you need

    Darling leave a light on for me (darling leave a light on)
    'Cause when the world takes me away
    You are still the air that I breathe

    Darling leave a light on for me (darling leave a light on)
    I'll be there before you close the door
    I'll be all the love that you need

    Darling leave a light on for me (darling leave a light on)
    'Cause when the world takes me away
    You are still the air that I breathe

    Darling leave a light on for me (darling leave a light on)
    I'll be there before you close the door
    To give you all the love that you need Writer/s: Ellen Shipley, Rick Nowels
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Gerry from Melbourne, Australia I’ve listened to this song for years trying to work out what it all means.
    Now, having read the lyrics, I think it’s a bunch of crap. “Leaving here man to go and find herself”. If this, in anyway was “reality” he would tell her to go, don’t stop, and don’t bother coming back.
    This sounds like a song written back in the 60’s, the Hippies used to carry on with this rubbish.
  • Paul from Geelong, Australiahelp - i've listened to this brill song and the full cd many imes and i can't tell which songs include bryan adams on vocals ?
  • Jack from New York, NyMany thnx to Ed Pearce. As a Harrison idiot, I had NO idea why he would ever work with her. Some of his best guitar work are on this tune and "Ocean" as well. There are few guitarists who had such a signature as George did (Hendrix/Edge/Santana,etc.) and this really spotlights it.
  • Mike from Santa Barbara, CaThis song has been performed for the soldiers in Iraq who have wives and children they left behind.
  • Bill from Downers Grove, IlBy far my favorite Belinda song. I didn't know George Harrison worked on it. Thanks for the info !
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