♫ After The Love Has Gone ♫d (Redux)

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I have good intentions, but … less energy than my intentions require!  And thus, my friends, I am reduxing one yet again, this one I last played in July 2020, but it is one that I really like … it gives me, somehow, that warm, glowy feeling.  I promise that soon I will come up with a few new ones that you guys have requested … honest I will!!!

Released in 1979, this hit #2 in the U.S. and #4 in the UK.  This was written by David Foster, Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin.  Says Graydon …

“David Foster produced an album for Jaye P. Morgan in 1976. It’s a great record. It’s available in Japan, and never did anything here, really. Then he was at Motown playing some songs with Jaye to try to get a deal over there.

He was in the middle of playing a song and he forgot the chorus, and he ad-libbed the chorus to ‘After The Love Has Gone.’ He comes over to my house, and we went into my little dinky studio. He sits down at the piano, and he says, ‘Listen to this chorus.’ He plays it, and I said, ‘Hey, here’s an idea for a verse.’ And I went, ‘da da dom, A major 7, da-D-minor-6, da da A major 7, bom ba da da da F-sharp minor.’ And he just immediately continued on with that, and we had the whole song written in about half an hour/45 minutes.

We called Champlin: ‘Bill, get over here, we need a lyric.’ David was producing Champlin at the time. David recorded it with Champlin, maybe three different versions. He got one that he really liked, though. But then David was also writing with Maurice White for Earth, Wind & Fire for the I Am album. He played the song for Maurice, and Maurice loved it. David called me and says, ‘Hey, man, Earth, Wind & Fire wants to record it, but I don’t want to tell Champlin that it’s gonna have to get pulled off his record. Will you do it?’ I said, ‘I sure will.’ (laughs) I called Bill and I said, ‘Bill, here’s the story.’ And he says, ‘I’m not an idiot, man.’ (laughing) I said, ‘I’m glad you say you’re not an idiot. Because they say this thing’s gonna be a single for sure. And this could be big.’ Needless to say, that song still generates good money. It’s unbelievable.”

The song won two Grammy Awards. Earth, Wind & Fire took the trophy for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance by a Group, an award they won four times in their career.  The track also won for Best Rhythm & Blues Song, which is bestowed on the writers. It was the first win for David Foster, who would go on to win a total of 16 Grammys. In 1993, he was named Billboard’s Top Singles Producer and Top R&B Producer, while receiving the largest number of Grammy nominations and winning Producer of the Year for Whitney Houston’s soundtrack to The Bodyguard. He also co-wrote the #1 single St. Elmo’s Fire with John Parr.

After the Love Has Gone
Earth, Wind & Fire

For a while, to love was all we could do
We were young and we knew, and our eyes were alive
Deep inside we knew our love was true
For a while we paid no mind to the past
We knew love would last
Every night somethin’ right
Would invite us to begin the dance
Somethin’ happened along the way
What used to be happy was sad
Somethin’ happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had

Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me one
And not let me stay around?
Oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that’s lost be found?
For a while to love each other
With all we would ever need
Love was strong for so long
Never knew that what was wrong
Baby, wasn’t right
We tried to find what we had
Til sadness was all we shared
We were scared this affair
Would lead our love into
Somethin’ happened along the way
Yesterday was all we had
Somethin’ happened along the way
What used to be happy is sad
Somethin’ happened along the way
What used to be was all we had

Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around?
Oh, oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that’s lost be found?

Oh, oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that’s lost be found
Oh, oh, after the love has gone

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: David Foster / Jay Graydon / William B. Champlin
After the Love Has Gone lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG Rights Management

19 thoughts on “♫ After The Love Has Gone ♫d (Redux)”

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  2. I have told you before about my LSD experiences as a young man. The new use of microdosing LSD for mental health purposes is bearing out my experiences in many cases. So, I can say what I do because, in my mind, I have seen what few others have. While I use the word “belief” to ameliorate comunication, what I “know,” inside of me, my experience goes far beyond belief.
    The thing is, if I really was just hallucinating it does not matter. But I cannot be convinced what I saw/ experienced was anything but real, and this is how I have chosen to live my life.
    You are right about probably not coming back as a wolf, but maybe if you want it bad enough it may happen. I wasn’t in the discussion about that part of reincarnation. But I was in a communication about reincarnation, so…

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  3. This time I am repisting my comment from 2020, because no one has answered it yet:
    My problem is asking the question is not enough. There is no answer, or resolution. Maybe I just expect too much, but the question is so important…
    What to do after the love has gone? And where did it go? And why?

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    • And I would answer your question with Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is”. I think most people mistake lust, or infatuation, or some other emotion for love from time to time.

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      • From time to time? How about 90% of the time or more before they turn at least 40. Love wasn’t pure lust or infatuation for me, and I thought it was love, but mostly it was some kind of “need.” I never felt completely in charge of my life till at least my 40s, and even then it took a lot of work on myself before I felt real love, IN MY OPINION.

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        • Okay … yeah, you’re right … 90% of the time! It happens to us all, but … rather than dwell on it, we just have to move on and say, “Okay, lesson learned” and try not to make the same mistake again. And then … we typically make the same mistake again … and again. The lucky ones actually find the person who can be their soulmate or whatever terminology you prefer for a lifetime, but those lucky ones are few and far between. It takes lots of work, effort, tongue-biting, compromise, and genuinely caring about the other person more than ourself.

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          • Although I love the song Old Souls, I do not believe in soul mates as such. If your spirit had a relationship with a differenr spirit in the past, and you meet again this lifetime, you will know them. But I have met at least 5 spirits in my life whom I have known in previous lifetimes. It is like meeting an old friend. But Soul Mate — the one and only — I don’t see that.
            Here is a song I think you will like, from the cult movie Phantom of the Paradise:

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            • I figured I would get a rebuttal when I chose that term, “soul mates”. You and I define ‘soul’ differently. I did not mean that in an other-wordly sense, nor in a religious sense, but rather in the sense that sometimes you meet someone and things just click.

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                • You are deeper than I am, my friend. I pretty much have to see something in order to believe it, which is why I am not religious. I talk sometimes about ‘coming back to Earth as a wolf’, but the reality is that I think that’s a long shot, overall I think that dead is dead. I could hope otherwise, and sometimes I do allow myself that bit of luxury, but when I think about it … I can’t believe in it.

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  4. I saw your title and my first thought was “ooh good, the Eagles” but then I remembered that their song was ‘After The Thrill Is Gone.’ Guess which I’d have preferred… 😉

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