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What Love Really Is

by Dave Warner

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A departure from my usual abrasive stuff, this is a bitter-sweet reflection on the nature of love. I've been working on what I call a `coastal album' for some time influenced by Brian Wilson, an idol of mine. What Love Really Is is a step back to a style of songwriting like Wilson's, Gilbert O'Sullivan and others you rarely hear nowadays. Hey, no radio station is going to play it, you probably won't hear it in a film although it would suit, and I doubt it will ever make a streaming playlist but I heard the song in my head and wanted to paint it, so I hope you enjoy it. Arranged and produced by Tony Copper with b/vs by Nicole Warner.

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WHAT LOVE REALLY IS
Maybe if we’d met this year Love would still be here
Instead of such sorrow there’d be tomorrow
Maybe if we’d met this week Life would still be sweet
Instead of us scheming we would be dreaming
But when too much water’s flowed under the bridge
It won’t leave you high just dry
When every day your nerves are on edge
It’s time to say goodbye

Maybe what Love really is is not some potent fizz
But accidental timing a trick of the lighting
And regrettably for us we’ve done too much since we begun
For our couplets to be … matching
But when too much water’s flowed under the bridge
It won’t leave you high just dry
When every day your nerves are on edge
It’s time to say goodbye

Babe I wish it wasn’t so
But one of us just has to go
When every day is more heartbreak
It’s a mistake … to stay

Perhaps one day we’ll meet again and time will be our friend
And we will be asking, why we did this parting
But the odds are that when all these tears are dry
we won’t be here
We’ll find another, more love discover

When too much water’s flowed under the bridge
It won’t leave you high just dry
When every day your nerves are on edge
It’s time to say
It’s time to say
good- Bye

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released March 25, 2022
writer Dave Warner
arranger/producer Tony Cooper
photo Bleddyn Butcher

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Dave Warner Sydney, Australia

Bob Dylan declared Dave Warner his favourite Australian artist. In 1973 Warner formed Pus, Australia’s first punk band.
He travelled to London in 1975 and developed a concept of original Australian music, `suburban rock’. Warner returned to Perth in 1976 and formed Dave Warner’s from the Suburbs an instant success. Warner continues to write and record music and is author of 20 books. ... more

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