Album: The Lexicon of Love (1982)

Charted: 4 18

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• Ah, mm
  Whoa, whoa, whoa
  When your world is full of strange arrangements
  And gravity won't pull you through
  You know you're missing out on something
  Well that something depends on you
  
  All I'm saying
  It takes a lot to love you
  All I'm doing
  You know it's true
  All I mean now
  There's one thing yes one thing
  That turns this gray sky to blue
  
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  
  When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye)
  Then your dreams fall apart at the seams
  Your reason for living's, your reason for leaving
  Don't ask me what it means
  
  (Who got the look)
  I don't know the answer to that question
  (Where's the look)
  If I knew I would tell you
  What's the look
  Look for your information
  Yes there's one thing, the one thing
  That still holds true
  (What's that)
  
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  The look of love
  
  If you judge a book by the cover
  Then you judge the look by the lover
  I hope you'll soon recover
  Me I go from one extreme to another
  
  And all my friends just might ask me
  They say, "Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love"
  And I say, maybe there must be a solution to
  The one thing, the one thing we can't find
  
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Sisters and brothers
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Should help each other
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Heavens above
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Hip hip hooray aye
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Yippie aiy yippee yaye
  (That's the look, that's the look)
  Be lucky in love
  Look of love Writer/s: David Gerald Palmer, Mark Andrew White, Martin David Fry, Stephen Barry Singleton
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Mick from NcWho played the ballerina in the video?
• Mike S. from Indianapolis, InAnother eerily similar song that was released just before this is "Mama Used To Say" by Junior, which also features very live-sounding drums, a bass synthesizer and that trademark three-note horn motif that ABC has used many times since. I'd love to know if producer Trevor Horn had taken some note from Bob Carter's production of "Mama Used To Say".
• Ryan from N.y.This song is in a movie but I can’t recall which one, and it’s bugging me. Feel like it was at the end of the movie when the camera pans off to the horizon right before the credits roll. I’m sure I’ll see the movie again at some point and will realize it when it happens, for now it’s gonna bug me.
• Donna from Quincy MaI always wondered if ABC was influenced by the Jordache Jeans commercial that was popular in that same era. In that commercial, it has a line that says "Who's got the look?" And in "The Look of Love," they say it exactly as it was said in the commercial. I thought it was a clever pop culture reference, and I wish there were a way to ask Martin about that!
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn October 23rd 1982, ABC performed "The Look of Love" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time the song was at #42 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on January 2nd, 1983 it peaked at #18 {for 3 weeks} and spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 {25 weeks}...
  And on December 12th, 1982 it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart...
  Between 1982 to 1987 the British quartet had seven Top 100 records; with two making the Top 10, "Be Near Me" peaked at #9 in 1985 and "When Smokey Sings" reached #5 in 1987.
• Michael from Santa Cruz, CaSorry,need to revise!.add to my list "The Human League--Dare!".How could I forget that!?!
• Michael from Santa Cruz, CaMy personal favorite british pop albums of the 80's were the following: "ABC--The Lexicon Of Love" "Soft Cell--Non-Stop Erotic Caberet" "Heaven 17--Penthouse & Pavement","Heaven 17--The Luxury Gap","Gary Numan--Telekon" & "Altered Images--Pinky Blue".The opening orchestra bit on ABC's album is one my all-time musical moments.Play it LOUD!
• Vicki from Chicago, Ilawesome song!

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