Album: Mama Said (1991)

Charted: 11 2

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• Here we are still together
  We are one
  So much time wasted
  Playing games with love
  
  So many tears I've cried
  So much pain inside
  But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  So many years we've tried
  To keep our love alive
  But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  
  How many times did we give up?
  But we always worked things out
  And all my doubts and fears kept me wondering, yeah
  If I'd always, always be in love
  
  So many tears I've cried
  So much pain inside
  But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  So many years we've tried
  And kept our love alive
  'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  
  Ooh, ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh, ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh, ooh
  
  So many tears I've cried
  So much pain inside
  Baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  So many years we've tried
  And kept our love alive
  'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  
  So many tears I've cried
  So much pain inside
  Baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  So many years we've tried
  To keep our love alive
  'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  (Over, over, over)
  
  So many tears we've cried
  So much pain inside
  But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  So many years we've tried
  To keep our love alive
  'Cause baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
  (Over, over, over)
  So many tears we've cried
  So much pain inside
  But baby it ain't over 'til it's over
  Over Writer/s: Lenny Kravitz
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• Linda Drywa from Rhode Island, UsaI’m sorry you had to experience that pain. It’s so hard to let go of someone you thought was your soul mate.
• Jan from Antwerp, --The album 'Mama Said' will always have a special place in my heart and in my record collection. I was 16 when this album came out and it was one of those records that everybody liked.
  But around that same time my first girlfriend (the first TRUE girlfriend, well you know what I mean) broke up our relationship and I felt really heartbroken. And Lenny helped me out. This album was going about his break up with Lisa Bonet and with song titles like 'It Ain't Over 'till It's Over', 'Stand By My Woman', 'More Than Anything In This World' and 'All I Ever Wanted' he discribed extactly how I was feeling at the time. I too wanted my girlfriend back and couldn't believe that our love was over. So, it was like, Lenny is my pal, he knows exactly how I'm feeling.
  Me and the mentioned girlfriend tried to get it back on a few years later but it wasn't the same anymore but Lenny Kravitz will always remain my 'buddy'.
• Jennifer Harris from Grand Blanc, MiWhen I fist heard this.I thought it was one of the Jacksons.I read on music choice it was about Lisa Bonet.
• Alan from Singapore, SingaporeOne of the Sugababes, Mutya Buena, sampled this song on her song "Real Girl"
• Sophia from London, EnglandI love this song and lenny looks really nice in the video too. ;)
• Brett from Edmonton, CanadaThe title was originally a famous line quipped by his holiness Yogi Berra ("a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"). Great song.

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