About The Song
“Look Me in the Heart” is a song by recording artist Tina Turner. It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and produced by Dan Hartman for Turner’s seventh solo studio album, Foreign Affair (1989). Released as a single in March 1990, it reached number 23 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 31 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The single was released in a variety of formats, including a live recording of the Private Dancer track “Steel Claw”, remixes of “Look Me in the Heart” and the 1987 “Tina Turner Montage Mix”, a nine-minute megamix including tracks from Private Dancer and Break Every Rule.
Bill Coleman from Billboard wrote, “Soul-drenched popper should be embraced by several formats. From the underappreciated Foreign Affair album.” Greg Kot from Chicago Tribune felt “Look Me in the Heart” “bears an uncanny resemblance” to her earlier cover of Al Green’s soul classic “Let’s Stay Together”. In a retrospective review, Pop Rescue declared it as a “pretty standard little pop song”, that “lacks anything more than another saxophone solo and some breathy synths as interest points.”
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Lyrics
Last night, we tried to touch
But we never got close
Last night, we tried to talk
The words got caught in our throats
We finally fell asleep
We couldn’t have been further apart
Look me in the heart
If you think that love is blind
Baby, look me in the heart
And you’ll see that I’m so crazy about you, baby
And it’s not in my mind
Can’t you look me in the heart?
Look me in the heart
You try to say that I’m hiding from you
You act like a spy, always looking for clues
You’ve read about my past
But why don’t we try to make a new start?
Look me in the heart
If you think that love is blind
Baby, look me in the heart
And you’ll see that I’m so crazy about you, baby
And it’s not in my mind
Can’t you look me in the heart
Look me in the heart
Remember how good we used to be together
Remember, baby, so be tender, baby
Remember the love we said would last forever
I know we can make it like that again
Yeah, oh, yeah
Look me in the heart
If you think that love is blind
Baby, look me in the heart
And you’ll see that I’m so crazy about you, baby
And it’s not in my mind
Can’t you look me in the heart?
Look me
Look me in the heart
Yeah (if you think that love is blind) oh, yeah
And you’ll see that I’m so crazy about you, baby
And it’s not in my mind
(Look me in the heart)
Look me in the heart
In my heart, in my heart
(Look me in the heart)
And you’ll see that love is blind