Today’s song of the day is “No More I Love You’s” by Annie Lennox. This is a cover from The Lover Speaks’s version, which debuted in 1986. 

Fun Facts:

• The Lover Speaks was an English duo consisting of David Freeman and Joseph Hughes, formed in 1985. Together they wrote and sang the song. 
• Freeman and Hughes’s version topped at #58 in the UK Singles Chart. The album and other singles failed to chart, even after it was re-released in 1988. 
• Annie Lennox released her cover of “No More I Love You’s” in the album Medusa. Her version of the hit single was an instant success reaching second place on the UK Singles Chart.
• Lennox’s version also reached international fame, hitting first place in Canada, Italy, and Spain. It also reached the top 20 in at least ten other countries.
• In the US, Annie Lennox’s version reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Annie Lennox spent years studying music after winning a place at London’s Royal Academy of Music. There, she played the flute, harpsichord and piano. 
• She is best known for her work with Dave Stewart in the 1980’s synth-pop band, Eurythmics. She quickly took on an androgynous musical identity after her performance in “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). 
• The Lover Speaks opened for Eurythmics during the Revenge World tour. 
• Lennox has been active in the social and political realms, with public support of Greenpeace, Amnesty International, LGTBQ rights, and AIDS. She also openly criticized the War on Iraq. 
• In 1999, Lennox and Stewart donated all of the profits from the Eurythmics Peace tour to charities. 

Lyrics 

I used to be a lunatic from the gracious days

I used to feel woebegone and so restless nights

My aching heart would bleed for you to see

Oh, but now

(I don’t find myself bouncing home

Whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me

No more “I love you’s”

Changes are shifting outside the word

(The lover speaks about the monsters)

I used to have demons in my room at night

Desire, despair, desire

So many monsters

Oh, but now

(I don’t find myself bouncing home

Whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me in silence

No more “I love you’s”

Changes are shifting outside the word

(And people are being real crazy

But we will only come

And you know what, mommy?

Everybody was being real crazy

The monsters are crazy

There are monsters outside)

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me in silence

No more “I love you’s”

Changes are shifting outside the word

Outside the words

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me

No more “I love you’s”

The language is leaving me

No more “I love you’s”

Changes are shifting outside the word

Outside the world