Erasure - River Deep Mountain High Lyrics

you could've let it finish, you know.

This version in brilliant. Andy's voice is amazing. The entire album is filled with heart and soul.

Soooooo goooodddd... Awesome love this.Didn't Tina Turner write this ??? She sang it.

Erasure's got something no one else has...amazing lyrics to go along with fantastic music...it hit's you in the gut and in the heart...and all the rest of your musical receptor!!! MAN, WHAT RHYTHMS, LYRICS, AND DOWNRIGHT KILLER COMBOS OF THE FIRST TWO! ERASURE'S GOT TWO HEARTS AND CONNECTS TO OUR INNER SELVES LIKE NO OTHER MUSICAL GROUP.

After releasing The Two Ring Circus (a remix album) in 1987, The Innocents was the third proper studio release from Erasure, released in 1988. Produced by Stephen Hague and released by Mute Records in Germany and the UK and Sire/Reprise Records in the USA, it was the release that made Erasure superstars in their home country and gave them their long-awaited breakthrough in the U.S.

The Innocents became the first in a string of number one albums by Erasure in the UK, turning double platinum with sales over 600,000. Thanks to heavy exposure on MTV, it also spawned two major Billboard Hot 100 hits, a Top 50 placing on the Billboard 200 and Platinum album certification in the U.S. According To Nielsen SoundScan, 23 years after its release the album has sold a total of 5 million copies worldwide. It is their best selling album to date.

The album was remastered and re-released on 26 October 2009 to celebrate its 21st anniversary. Prefaced by an EP of remixes led by album track "Phantom Bride," the 21st Anniversary Edition came in a couple of flavours including a limited edition two CD / DVD set, packed inside a CD-sized 20-page hardback book that includes interviews with Vince Clarke and Andy Bell about the making of the record and their thoughts on all the tracks.

The second CD includes various rarities, including the 7″ version of the duo’s take on "River Deep, Mountain High" and US-specific remixes of "Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect" that weren’t released in the UK singles box set.

When I was a little girl
I had a rag doll
The only doll I ever owned
Now I love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
And it gets higher until our day

And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I'll never let you down

'Cause it goes on and on like a river flows
It gets bigger baby heaven knows
It gets sweeter baby as it grows

And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

I had a rag doll
The only doll I ever owned
Now I love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
And it gets higher until our day

And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

I love you baby like a flower loves the spring
I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag
I love you baby river deep, mountain high

Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep

And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

This version of R-D-M-H is magnificent!  So much more thrilling than the original take, in my book!  (Can you imagine an old gray-bearded 69 y/o scaring the Willies out of his misses, stomping his booty around the house, to the Erasure version?  Well, man, it's on!!!).  Thanks for bring it to my attention, Rich!

I loved this at the time - I prefer the Tina Turner version still and without sounding too gay - Celine Dions version even more so.

Great cover! But Ike and Tina Turner's with Phil Spector still rules to this day.

I still think Celine Dion's version is also great too - not that I'm a fan of her other stuff

Whats that at the end???

You call it a doll, I call it an action figure.

When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll.
 
  Is he homosexual?

isn't that the original lyric? I, for one, hate it when cross gendered singers change the lyrics.

When I was a little boy I had a rag doll, the only doll I ever owned.
 Now I'm a pretty girl and looking just like my rag doll, only now everybody knows.

+Diktator Alexander I didn't say transgendered. I said cross gendered. as in, a woman performing a song that was originally performed by a man, or vice versa.

+Diktator Alexander singing a lyric does that decide a persons sexuality...its a bit narrow minded

He didn't have to change the lyrics.The original was sung by a woman, Tina Turner. For Andy Bell the lyrics fit him perfect as it was.

This tune needs just one thing. Volume!!!!

No Cowbell?

awesome

Thsi was one of my most favorite songs to sing to when I lived in Salt Lake City, UT, in the early 90's.

I lived in Salt Lake during then. I saw erasure at o e of the ski resorts one summer

1 of the best covers I've ever heard!

Vince é um Gênio!!! Andy Fabuloso!!!

Funny about the renault...I had one too. Blasting this as loud as my little car could as I passed the guards at the gate, leaving the base behind and going out to do things that would have had me kicked out of the Air Force. Great times.

1966, if I recall correctly.

Swoon......

GAHHHH another cut off ending! mine is same way arggg frustrating!

Brill stuff - they are like one of my favourite groups and i could listen to them forever

erasure, the most danceable !

Federico, I agree wholeheartely about Erasure's R-D-M-H:  As I listened to their version of the Turner's smash hit, I couldn't stop myself from dancing (at least, in my head!); Much as I cherish the Turner's version, I'm still hooked on tthe Erasure rendition; what a magnetic rhythm to embellish a great dancing song!  And, all this at my grand old age of 69!  Gotta thank Rich, an old HWheels buddy, for bringing out a reminder of a great group performing a great dancing song!  (And, the lyrics gibe so beautifully with the Erasure rhythm!  Kinda gives ya goosebumps!).  Bring it on home, Erasure!!!

love it ;-)

@tigercub2k7 you mean you liked it when Tina Turner sang it back in 1969.

@siansykes42 I used to listen to Erasure in the car with my dad too haha, I'm going to see Erasure in a couple days, can't wait!

I looooove this song!

Only rendition I've ever heard.

@tigercub2k7

URGH... wat a shite show... why do the wreck the classics

great pipes

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Oh, how I miss this cassette! I'm definately getting the CD!

The best version by a long shot, great song!

@madsexy69r they just released a 21st anniversary dvd and cd pack all remastered digitally. Look it up on amazon.com