The look of love/
Is saying so much more than/
Just words could every say.
“The Love of Love” is another Burt Bacharach classic, this time sung by the amazing Dusty Springfield. Springfield might have the sexiest voice of all time and it is best demonstrated on this song. There are a couple other singers in the running, but this song is an amazing demonstration.
Notice the restraint with which she sings. No one does that like her. She gets the proper credit she is due. Most would recognize five of her songs but only music geeks would recognize her name. She doesn’t have the name recognition of her peers like Aretha Franklin or maybe Patsy Cline.
This is a song as overtly about lust as you can imagine, and yet it was still a hit in pop music in the late 60s. Though, if you compare this to the rock of that period this is about on par. Nothing on the pop side was close to as sexual as this. Consider “Son of a Preacher Man”, or Warwick’s “Walk on By”. This song was released in the seminal year of 1967 too, but we usually don’t think of it as a big year for pop, but a big year for rock. There was a lot going on in music that year.
The Look of Love Lyrics
The look of love
Is in your eyes
A look your smile
Can’t disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more than
Just words could every say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You’ve got the look of love
Is on your face
A look that time can’t erase
Be mine, tonight
Let this be just the start of
So many nights like this
Let’s take a lovers vow
And seal it with a kiss
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don’t ever go
Don’t ever go
I love you so
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don’t ever go
Don’t ever go
Don’t ever go
Songwriters: Burt Bacharach / Hal David