If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), 1986). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-30. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"
"If You Leave," written by Martin Cooper, Malcolm Holmes, Paul Humphreys and Andrew McCluskey, was OMD's only top 10 hit landing at the no. 4 position on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986; the song was written for and featured in the film "Pretty In Pink" (songfacts, 2022; Whitburn, 2013). According to Interview.com (Mar. 30, 2011), "If You Leave" is "one of the most influential, zeitgeist-capturing songs ever to be written." According to McCluskey, the original song we wrote for "Pretty In Pink" was rejected because the director changed the ending of the movie. "we [were given] 2 days to write a new track at Larabee Studios in L.A. We worked until 4 a.m. writing a rough version and sent a motorbike to Paramount. John [Hughes, director] heard it, liked it, and our manager phoned us at 8 a.m. and told us to go back in and mix it. That's how 'If You Leave' Happened! (songfacts, 2022).
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Lyrics:
If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways
We've always had time on our sides
But now it's fading fast
Every second
Every moment
We've got to, we've gotta make it last
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday
If you leave
I won't cry
I won't waste one single day
But if you leave, don't look back
I'll be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've got to, you've gotta say you will
I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd still be friends
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again someday
If you leave
If you leave
If you leave
Don't look back
Don't look back
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