Tina Turner

Released: September 23, 1986

[Chorus 1]
Girls, we come and we go
We kiss, come and we go
Like a breeze brushing your cheek
Like pain, like the tears on a face
Girls

[Verse]
Girls, we come and we go
Like spirits, we vanish at dawn
My heart suspended in time
Like you, vanish like tears in the rain

[Chorus 2]
Girls, we take our love away
Like spirits living so far away
Girls, pretending to break down and cry
Girls, whispering wind
Why do we give it away?
We used to be so happy
Remember, remember, so happy
I never knew how lonely
How lonely, how lonely
Could feel

[Chorus 1]
Girls, we come and we go
We kiss, come and we go
Like spirits brushing your cheek
Ooo, like pain, like the tears on a face

[Chorus 2]
Girls, we take our love away
Like spirits living so far away
Girls, pretending to break down and cry
Girls, whispering wind
What are we giving away?
We used to be so happy
Remember, remember, so happy
I never knew how lonely
How lonely, how lonely
Could feel[3x]

[Outro][Fading]
Yeah ,yeah,yeah...

Often dubbed the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner is arguably among the most iconic of female divas in history, with her prolific career and memorable personality as a performer and a public figure. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, and born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner has cemented herself as one of music’s greatest entertainers.

Turner’s career in music arose from her frequenting of nightclubs near St. Louis, where she would meet her soon-to-be husband Ike Turner, who would also give her the alias “Tina”. With Ike, she would form the famous Ike And Tina Turner Revue. A dynamic, explosive R&B ensemble, the two became the definition of the genre in the late 60s and early 70s, where R&B/Soul had only tiptoed into the realms of the mainstream. A particularly influential act in popularizing the genre, the Revue went on to release some of music’s most memorable and iconic tracks – a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, the Phil Spector-penned “River Deep – Mountain High”, and the electric “Nutbush City Limits”. After a host of drug and abuse problems on Ike’s part, with the male Turner eventually engaging in a violent altercation with his wife, Tina decided to leave her husband for the solo life – and it worked.

As a solo artist, with the help of fellow artists like glam rocker David Bowie, Turner tumbled into mainstream success in the 80s with the only number-one hit of her career – the unconquerable love ballad “What’s Love Got To Do With It” as part of her debut solo album, Private Dancer.

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