Now, High Level is not a big town, but some things just should not happen anywhere! Less than hour before those pics, Gail for sure, possibly both of us, were mere inches away from death. I don’t want to sleep, I just want to keep on lovin’ youĭid you get the Baddddd pics I sent you from Gail’s cellphone? Instead you laid still in the grass, all coiled up and hissin’īaby, way before then, and we’re still together You should have known by the tone of my voice, maybe You should have seen by the look in my eyes, baby Keyboardist Neal Doughty initially had concerns about recording this love ballad, but his fears were allayed when this proved to be a breakthrough hit for the band. She was out of our league, big-time.”īefore REO Speedwagon recorded this, they were known as a hard rock band. The psychiatrist was this gorgeous model with librarian glasses. “Someone figured out that you had to have a hot chick in the video. The video shows Cronin with a hot female psychiatrist. The network continued to play their videos, even though they were low-budget affairs. They had the good fortune of being one of the hottest bands in America when MTV launched on August 1, 1981, and this song was the 17th song played on MTV that first day. REO Speedwagon was one of the first rock bands to score big with power ballads in the ’80s. I tried my best, but it just didn’t happen.” Even in giving it all I got, at some point, we realized that it just wasn’t going to work. You can also look it in the eye, and if there is enough worthwhile in the relationship to keep it going, then you give it all you’ve got, and that’s what I did. “That song is a yin-yang thing, where there is obviously trouble in paradise in the verses, but I always believed that people are capable of changing, and that if your life runs into a tough spot, it doesn’t mean that you necessarily have to run from it.
When I said that I loved you I meant that I loved you foreverĬronin called it, “The most painful song I ever wrote.” It didn’t work out for Kevin Cronin though, as he and Denise split up a few years after the album was released. Instead of leaving her, he decided that he would keep on loving her no matter what, as he made that promise: This REO Speedwagon song, released in 1980, is lead singer Kevin Cronin’s response after he found out his wife Denise had been cheating on him before they were married.
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