It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

Album: Mama Said (1991)
Charted: 11 2
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  • Here we are still together
    We are one
    So much time wasted
    Playing games with love

    So many tears I've cried
    So much pain inside
    But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    So many years we've tried
    To keep our love alive
    But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over

    How many times did we give up?
    But we always worked things out
    And all my doubts and fears kept me wondering, yeah
    If I'd always, always be in love

    So many tears I've cried
    So much pain inside
    But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    So many years we've tried
    And kept our love alive
    'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over

    Ooh, ooh
    Ooh
    Ooh, ooh
    Ooh
    Ooh, ooh

    So many tears I've cried
    So much pain inside
    Baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    So many years we've tried
    And kept our love alive
    'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over

    So many tears I've cried
    So much pain inside
    Baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    So many years we've tried
    To keep our love alive
    'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    (Over, over, over)

    So many tears we've cried
    So much pain inside
    But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    So many years we've tried
    To keep our love alive
    'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
    (Over, over, over)
    So many tears we've cried
    So much pain inside
    But baby it ain't over 'til it's over
    Over Writer/s: Lenny Kravitz
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Linda Drywa from Rhode Island, UsaI’m sorry you had to experience that pain. It’s so hard to let go of someone you thought was your soul mate.
  • Jan from Antwerp, --The album 'Mama Said' will always have a special place in my heart and in my record collection. I was 16 when this album came out and it was one of those records that everybody liked.
    But around that same time my first girlfriend (the first TRUE girlfriend, well you know what I mean) broke up our relationship and I felt really heartbroken. And Lenny helped me out. This album was going about his break up with Lisa Bonet and with song titles like 'It Ain't Over 'till It's Over', 'Stand By My Woman', 'More Than Anything In This World' and 'All I Ever Wanted' he discribed extactly how I was feeling at the time. I too wanted my girlfriend back and couldn't believe that our love was over. So, it was like, Lenny is my pal, he knows exactly how I'm feeling.
    Me and the mentioned girlfriend tried to get it back on a few years later but it wasn't the same anymore but Lenny Kravitz will always remain my 'buddy'.
  • Jennifer Harris from Grand Blanc, MiWhen I fist heard this.I thought it was one of the Jacksons.I read on music choice it was about Lisa Bonet.
  • Alan from Singapore, SingaporeOne of the Sugababes, Mutya Buena, sampled this song on her song "Real Girl"
  • Sophia from London, EnglandI love this song and lenny looks really nice in the video too. ;)
  • Brett from Edmonton, CanadaThe title was originally a famous line quipped by his holiness Yogi Berra ("a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"). Great song.
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