1984/1988 (Shirley Bassey Musical Video)
ABOUT this song:
(That's Right), Love Is No Game is a single released by Shirley Bassey in 1985. Composed by Pino Marchese, Charles McLoughlin who later worked together on the film soundtrack of the French movie Parole de Flic. The same team had previously provided the 1983 European hit "Thought I'd Ring You" (duet with Alain Delon), which charted at #13 in the Dutch charts. The song is a remix of a song that was previously released in 1984, then known only as "That's Right". The single was released in the wake of the recent hit single "The Rhythm Divine" a collaboration with the electro-pop group Yello, which revived Bassey's career and chart success in otherwise a rather barren period in her recording career and introduced her to a whole new generation. The song has never been included on a Shirley Bassey album or compilation. The 7" single release features. on the b-side, the original Shirley Bassey recording of "Memory", 'from the musical Cats (musical) recorded in 1984. She went on to re-record the song in 1993 for the album Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Shirley Bassey did not promote the single, 'Memory' and no video was released. The single was only released in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany it failed to chart.
LYRICS:
That's Right!
You've never really been on my side
Though I suppose you never know
Oh, how it feels to be alone
That's Right
I had no choice
Put up my own fight
And even when you said you knew
Still there was nothing you could do
That's Right
Could it have crossed your mind that I might
Not play this pointless masquerade
You turned into your own charade
You tried
A Dangerous game to play, and I died
And yet we started off as friends
Could we have known how it would end
Love is no game
It was a dream that slipped away
And far too late you realized
You were the sadness in my eyes
Love is no game
That dream you gave so easily
But you were never there to see
The hurt I felt inside of me
Now
My eyes are open I can see
A world is waiting there for me
To weave its web of fantasy
That's Right
You told me more than once that, "that's life"
You turned the knife deep in my heart
I saw my life breaking apart
Don't cry
You know I've come to tell you, "goodbye"
You never really ever cared
And still it hurts when you're not there
Love is no game
It was a dream that slipped away
And far too late you realized
You were the sadness i
