Love Takes Time

Album: Mariah Carey (1990)
Charted: 37 1
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  • I had it all
    But I let it slip away
    Couldn't see that I treated you wrong
    Now I wander around
    Feeling down and cold
    Trying to believe that you're gone

    Love takes time
    To heal when you're hurting so much
    Couldn't see that I was blind
    To let you go
    I can't escape the pain
    Inside
    'Cause love takes time
    I don't want to be here
    I don't wanna be here alone

    Losing my mind
    From this hollow in my heart
    Suddenly I'm so incomplete
    Lord I'm needing you now
    Tell me how to stop the rain
    Tears are falling down endlessly

    Love takes time
    To heal when you're hurting so much
    Couldn't see that I was blind
    To let you go
    I can't escape the pain
    Inside
    'Cause love takes time
    And I don't want to be here
    I don't wanna be here alone

    You might say that it's over
    You might say that you don't care
    You might say you don't miss me
    You don't need me
    But I know that you do and I feel that you do inside

    Love takes time
    To heal when you're hurting so much
    Couldn't see that I, I was so blind
    To let you go
    I can't escape the pain
    Inside
    'Cause love takes time
    I don't want to be there
    I don't wanna be there alone Writer/s: Ben Margulies, Mariah Carey
    Publisher: Abkco Music Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnThe song that made me a Mariah fan, her voice gives me chills.
  • Candice from Vancouver, CanadaMariah's first album has 4 #1 hits! Good job, Mariah.
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