About The Song
“One Night Love Affair” is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams’s fourth studio album, Reckless (1984), it was the fifth single released from the album. It is one of Adams’s most recognizable and popular songs in North America. The song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Top Rock Tracks chart and has appeared on Adams’s compilation album Anthology (2005). It was the only single taken from Reckless with no music video, among the six that were officially released between 1984 and 1986.
The song is about a one-night stand. The lyrics describe the encounter and the subsequent parting of ways of the protagonists, who, the song suggests, are concealing deeper feelings.
“One Night Love Affair” was officially released to US radio in 1985, it appeared on the Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 chart at 13 and 7 on the mainstream rock tracks. In Canada, “One Night Love Affair” was officially released to radio in February 1985. The song reached the top twenty on the Canadian Singles Chart and remained in the top twenty for another month. “One Night Love Affair” was the lowest charting single from Reckless (1984).
“One Night Love Affair” appeared on the soundtrack of the sci-fi comedy film Real Genius (1985) starring Val Kilmer. The song was used during the scene where the Pacific Tech students attend the Tanning Invitational pool party with the beauty school students.
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Lyrics
You’re the silent type
And you caught my eye
But I never thought that I’d be touchin’ you
How was I to know
I’d let my feelings go
And that I’d be yours before the night was through, yeah
One night love affair
Tryin’ to make like we don’t care
We were both reachin’ out for somethin’, oh
One night love affair
Pretendin’ it ain’t there
Oh, and now we’re left with nothin’ (nothin’)
When the mornin’ breaks
We go our separate ways
If the night was made for love, it ain’t for keeps
But I lose control
As I watch you go
All my senses say I’m in this much too deep
Now you’re out of reach
One night love affair
Tryin’ to make like we don’t care
We were both reachin’ out for somethin’, yeah, yeah
One night love affair
Pretendin’ we don’t care
Oh, and now we’re left with nothin’ (hey)
Hey, one night love affair
Tryin’ to make like we don’t care
We were both reachin’ out for somethin’, yeah, yeah
One night love affair
Sometimes life ain’t fair
Oh, and now we’re left with nothin’, nothin’, yeah, yeah
One night, one night
One night, one night
One night, one night love affair, yeah
Oh, one night love affair
Oh yeah, oh yeah
It’s too sweet
One night love affair
Pretendin’ we don’t care
Oh no
We don’t care, yeah