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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

written by: Deborah Harry - Chin-Chin Music (ASCAP), Barbara Jean-Morrison - Muzzle Loader (ASCAP), Charles W. Nieland - Athame Music (ASCAP)
produced by: Super Buddha
engineered by: Super Buddha

all instruments by: Super Buddha
percussion: Deborah Harry

 

FEATURED ON

Necessary Evil [album] (2007)

 

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

WHAT IS LOVE

(--- speculated lyrics ---)

What is love, what is love?
Yesterday I knew what it was
What is love, what is love?

Well, I've been haunted by the invisible ties that bind
And it's impossible to get you out of my mind
So I'll be talking and texting till what seems like the end of time
And you know I'll be thinking of you and asking myself

What is love, what is love?
Yesterday I knew what it was
What is love?
Today I'm not so sure
What is love, what is love?
Maybe tomorrow I'll know what it was
What is love?

Why try? Why even bother to redefine?
All these feelings that have been flooding the water line
I'm still happy to know what it was like and I'll be thinking of you and asking myself every time

What is love, what is love?
Yesterday I knew what it was
What is love?
Today I'm not so sure
What is love, what is love?
Maybe tomorrow I'll know what it was
What is love, what is love?

If you go wild I'll take my chances
I'll build a shrine to what romance is
I'll wreck my brain for some kind of answers coz even

What is love, what is love?
Yesterday I knew what it was
What is love?
Today I'm not so sure
What is love, what is love?
Maybe tomorrow I'll know what it was
What is love?
What is love?

What is love, what is love?
Yesterday I knew what it was
What is love?
Today I'm not so sure
What is love, what is love?
Maybe tomorrow I'll know what it was
What is love?
What is love?

COMMENTS

quoted from the VH1.com article 'Deborah Harry: Track by Track':

"I went into the studio one night and all I had was "What is love, what is love" -- I didn't even feel that there was a song there. We started talking about it and it really became apparent that the album really was about love, and the importance of it, and how difficult it can be, that it's the best thing but also the most difficult thing. I had remembered that there were some Buddhist chants that are about putting you in that other state of mind, so we just incorporated that mantra feel in it."

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