10cc – The Things We Do for Love

“The Things We Do for Love” – Single by 10cc from the album Deceptive Bends. B-side “Hot to Trot”. Released 3 December 1976 (UK).
Charted No.6 in UK, No.5 in US and No.1 in Canada.

“The Things We Do for Love” is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1976. This was the first single from the band’s fifth album, Deceptive Bends, their first without founding members Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, who became a top music video directing team. It was an amicable parting, with all members going on to further success. Stewart and Gouldman kept scoring hits with 10cc; their next album contained the #1 UK hit “Dreadlock Holiday.”

10cc members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman wrote this song; Stewart sang lead. The lyric is based on Stewart’s real-life experience. “I remember walking through the rain and the snow when I lived in Manchester and we didn’t have a telephone,” he said in a BBC Radio Wales interview. “I had to go and find a phone box to ring the girl who was about to become my wife. The phones were down, and it was snowing, and these, these vivid pictures are there. If you put them in a song, a lot of people identify with a similar situation.”

10cc
Eric Stewart – lead & backing vocals, electric lead guitar, piano, organ
Graham Gouldman – bass, electric & acoustic rhythm guitars, tambourine, handclaps, backing vocals
Paul Burgess – drums, tambourine, handclaps, gong

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10cc - The Things We Do For Love

The Things We Do For Love / 10cc - Live03:34

The Things We Do for Love este un cântec de dragoste, destul de realistic ca poveste, a fost compus de Eric Stewart și Graham Gouldman. Se pare că la baza acestei melodii stă a mică neînțelegere între Eric Stewart și prietena lui, după o conversație telefonică un pic mai dura cu tatăl ei (viitoarea soție).
“The Things We Do for Love” a fost lansat ca single la 3 Decembrie 1976. Melodia a fost hit în anul următor în mai toate țările din Europe, inclusiv locul 1 în Canada.

Această melodie a fost primul single de pe al 5-lea album al grupului 10cc, “Deceptive Bends”.

Lyrics/Versuri:

Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
The things we do for love

Communication is the problem to the answer
You’ve got her number and your hand is on the phone
The weather’s turned and all the lines are down
The things we do for love

Like walking in the rain and the snow
When there’s nowhere to go
When you’re feeling like a part of you is dying
And you’re looking for the answer in her eyes
You think you’re gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up

Ooh, you made me love you
Ooh, you’ve got a way
Ooh, you had me crawling up the wall

Like walking in the rain and the snow
When there’s nowhere to go
When you’re feeling like a part of you is dying
And you’re looking for the answer in her eyes
You think you’re gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up

Ooh, you made me love you
Ooh, you’ve got a way
Ooh, you had me crawling up the wall

A compromise would surely help the situation
Agree to disagree but disagree to part
When after all it’s just a compromise of
The things we do for love
The things we do for love
The things we do for love
The things we do for love
The things we do for love

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