Album: Can't Fight Fate (1989)

Charted: 69 1

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• Sayin' goodbye is never an easy thing
  But you never said, that you'd stay forever
  So if you must go, well, darlin? I?ll set you free
  But I know in time, that we?ll be together
  Oh, I won't try to stop you now from leaving
  'Cause in my heart I know
  
  Love will lead you back
  Someday I just know that
  Love will lead you back to my arms
  Where you belong
  
  I'm sure, sure as stars are shining
  One day you will find me again
  It won't be long
  One of these days our love will lead you back
  
  One of these nights, well I?ll hear your voice again
  You're gonna say, oh, how much you miss me
  You walked out this door, but someday you'll walk back in
  Oh, darling I know, oh, I know this will be
  Sometimes it takes, sometime out on your own now
  To find your way back home
  
  Love will lead you back
  Someday I just know that
  Love will lead you back to my arms
  Where you belong
  
  I'm sure, sure as stars are shining
  One day you will find me again
  It won't be long
  One of these days our love will lead you back
  
  But I won't try to stop you now from leaving
  'Cause in my heart I know, oh yeah
  
  Love will lead you back
  Someday I just know that
  Love will lead you back to my arms
  Where you belong
  
  I'm sure, sure as stars are shining
  One day you will find me again
  It won't be long
  One of these days our love will lead you back
  Yeah, yeah
  
  Love will lead you back
  Someday I just know that
  Love will lead you back to my arms
  It won't be long
  One of these days our love will lead you back Writer/s: Diane Eve Warren
  Publisher: Realsongs, Royalty Network, TuneCore Inc.
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Comments: 6

• Michele BishopWho is the drummer for Taylor Dwayne’s song love will lead you back?
• Jose Torres from Queens,n.y.Back in the 90s I heard this record and I fell in love with the song. As a matter of fact, I have the video which shows Taylor Dayne with the band singing that song. I have the video on my phone because I fell in love with it and with Taylor Dayne. I hope she could read this.
• Kent from Greensburg, PaI was just thinking. Could you imagine how great this song would be if Whitney Houston had done a cover version?
• Annabelle from Eugene, OrI met Taylor Dayne at a concert, which my father and stepmother took me to see in Las Vegas in 2001. We met backstage in The Station, a small theater, where my Dad, Stepmom and I sat in the front row, and Taylor was literally a few feet away. I asked her about this song when she pulled me aside in the theater's lobby, to make a sweet comment on my singing voice. When I told her about how the song linked to a situation that recently happened in my life at home, Taylor told me the story of how the idea for the song originally came together. She even said to me that she knew Diane Warren, and that "Love Will Lead You Back" was actually a collaborative effort between her and Diane.
  
  The idea for the song originally came from part of a farewell note that Taylor Dayne had written to her husband in 1988. As her debut album, Tell It To My Heart was making its way up the charts, Dayne had experienced some painful emotions when she and her husband separated in mid-1988. The cause of their separation was due to false accusations that Taylor had been messing around with another man. However, the tables had turned, when in fact, Taylor caught her husband in bed with another woman! As Taylor sat down and wrote a long farewell note to her husband, she included what would eventually become the lyrics to this bittersweet ballad of sadness and heartache. Taylor's poignant note tells her husband that saying goodbye is always the hardest thing to do, but in her heart, there's always hope that he'll tell her he misses her, and that one day he'll soon return home. Taylor was then taken to the house of Diane Warren, a songwriter from Los Angeles, who was staying in her vacation home, a beachhouse in New York City, before going on her way to Russia for the summer. As Diane sat down with Taylor, she, too, was saddened by these words, saying that she could feel Taylor's pain. Diane then sat down at the piano in her house, carefully reading Taylor's letter, and, although she admitted to Dayne that she had never been in love, let alone never been married, she agreed to perfect Taylor's idea into a suitable piece of music. Diane wrote down a perfected version, although not exactly verbatim, of the words that Taylor wrote, and, within a few short hours, she composed a beautiful but sad melody for the song that would later become Taylor's only #1 hit. However, the first run was not as good as the girls expected. The melody of this song was originally in the key of A-Flat Minor and E-Flat Major. When Taylor tried to match her voice with the recording, she looked over and said, 'Diane, this is pretty good, only there's something wrong with this picture. This song is too low for my voice range, since I have a higher voice, and a limited vocal range. I was wondering if you could please bring it up a couple of notches for me.' It was soon arranged, Diane made a new version, this time changing the key from A-Flat Minor and E-Flat Major, to D-Flat Minor and A-Flat Major. It is the D-Flat Minor and A-Flat Major keyed version that became the finished result of this song.
  
  Diane Warren originally had Whitney Houston in mind to sing this song, but then she realized that the feelings came straight from Taylor's heart, so Dayne's version was the original recording of this song.
• Beth from Pittsburgh, PaTaylor Dayne has an awesome voice..but this is the only song i really love hearing her sing.
  Maybe some of her emotions for her ex husband came thru..I don't know,... beautiful work..
• David from Liverpool, EnglandAlthough a US No.1 this song was only a minor hit on the UK chart reaching No.69.
  
  Source: British Hit Singles and Albums.

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