Pitney, Gene - True Love Never Runs Smooth Lyrics

reat song great singer

Great photos n album covers

I'm in love 😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖

Love this song soooo much!! Miss you Gene!!

Gene was a cut above the rest.

Listening in 2019〽️❤️🎼🎤

LLLUUUVV THIS SONG!!!

i would not trade that music for anything; he was one of my faves

I’m 32, loved him since I was 14! Beautiful music, with a meaning 🎶

True love never runs smooth

o gene getting down. U go buddy.

Luv's cycles Like a SeeSAW ride/ Hold on I'm still here

Man does this take  me  back.........

Back in the day,
it seemed like
the hits would never end, and then they did!
(sob!)

brilliant UK artist of all time

Gene Pitney was an American.

Bellissima canzone che dice il vero sull'amore e Gene ci mette il cuore nel cantarla. Grazie al signor Brent per il testo

He was fabulous.

I wish young people these days could hear his songs -

william stanney true I'm 39 tho golden oldies songs can't beat

They have their own music. Did you love your grandfather’s music?

love this song x

a time when singers could sing

Singers can still sing

Hey Im voicing a opinion, you dont like it dont reply back. Simple as that

Hey I can talk nonsense all I want. Im voicing a opionion, you dont like it dont reply back, simple as that. You dont own the world, its a free country the world doesnt evolve around you.

+jason75 Who
in the heck are
you writing your comments to?

Pitney Pitney oh Pitney meant so much to so many people, made every man that heard your voice want to be a better person.... RIP

I guess it's very apropos that this is yet another Bacharach/David song.

Thanx for the memories :) 

The title of the song is so apt!  Many of us have had so much heartache - but listening to tracks like this, ensures we are not alone.  R.I.P. Gene & some of your fans are with you too!

Jane McKenna - Jane......are you from Chicago??

My favourite singer. I like all his Italian and American songs

love this underated song also live Petula Clarks more up tempo version.

back in the sixties, my boyfriend and I broke up for a few months.  When we got back together, I remember all our friends singing this song to us.

One of my favorite songs of all time- and my Favorite Gene Pitney song!  

Ditto! And I didn't even know of this song until a few years after it came out even though it was on the air while I was in HS.

Should say "we have to pay"

+Dana Gouette,Yes you are right he is saying "pay" isn't he?

Yes we have to pay not face

- For sure. He wrote some real dandies. Cheers, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)

He did write some dandies, BUT THIS ISN'T
ONE OF THEM.
Burt Bacharach composed the music, Hal David wrote the lyrics.

Wow, im reading Burt Bacharac's new book" 'Any one who Had A Heart". Very interesting, incredible book/story. I might have known he wrote this Beautiful song. WOW such talent, he deserves all the accolades he gets.

@tom kalin .....find her...younever know....ithappened to me after 36 years....

Amazing voice and true he is sorely missed x

So sorry to hear that, God Bless !

Once in a life time voice, I want to introduce my grown kids to Gene

For true love never runs smooth
But I don't care cos
True love is worth all the pain the heartaches and tears
That we may share

I have been a huge Pitney fan since the early 60s. This may be my favorite. So many great songs; but this strikes a special cord.

very sorry for your loss fred

I Am quite happy with most of todays music being rubbish
It gave me the chance to dig into music and find alot of golden oldies,
And now i dont need new music the 50s 60s and 70s have said it all for me musically,
But i was not born until the 80s, i guess im just weird

You are obviously a person who appreciates great music and far from weird. Now that you have found the talent and voice that was Gene Pitney you will have many happy hours of listening pleasure.

1 of me all time favs just love ittttttttttttttttttttttttttt

repeat button plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

gene pitney...LEGEND!!!!!!!! what a great track

Bachrach/David, right? Total killer song, singer, production - kool audio/vid - thanks! Cheers, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)

Great song!from a great singer!

One of our favorites back in 1963 when Donna and I started dating. Donna and I loved it so much we made it our song back then and it was still our song until cancer took the love of my life, my wife, Donna on 4/1/2012. Thanks for the post

@Brent441 "we have to try" should read "we have to face"...

The poetic lyrics of this song are almost transcendental and would stand alone a capella. Combined with music, that plaintive voice, so uniquely gene Pitney, and the studio arrangement, and you arrive as close to artistic perfection as it get gets!

I cannot believe this song only reached #21 on the charts. I suppose it's a testament to the quality of music in the 60s.

not only the prettiest song Gene ever recorded, but one of music's all time great ones. I remember hearing this in the summer of l963 on WBZ in Boston. whenever the nighttime personality, the incredibly witty and articulate Bruce Bradley, would play this song, he'd always say something like " a great song with poor English grammar..it should be 'True Love Never Runs Smooth-LY' "

Ross, as much as I love this recording, I have to give the nod to "Only Love Can Break A Heart" as being Gene Pitney's prettiest song.

what a song

Too bad it wasnt in the movie

One of my favorites and here's a correction for you. Where it says "We have to try" in the 4th and 5th stanza, it should be "We have to face". Thanks for posting it.

My favorite Gene Pitney tune. Thanks for sharing!

Google the lyrics it's not try or pay but fa-ce

@mebanedeac47 Very true thanks.

Take a listen, "we have to try" sounds more like "we have to pay", which is more in tune with "worth" in "true love is worth all the pain, the heartaches and tears..."

I also think you were correct the first time with "when the world outside my house..."

@Brent441

It's not "try" and it's not "face" as some have said. The lyric is "pay".

@60phile I did, and still in love.

Thanks for posting... great song, great voice

i wish i could sing like gene, its amazing talent

When you heard Gene or Orbison there was no doubt who was singing. Unique voices. Range to die for and delivery from the heart.

Gene was the best, the most soulful of the white singers of the 60's - no surprise since he was a labelmate of Jimmy Radcliffe

gene hun, i feel you, i see you, i am truely blessed, all you guys need to beleive there is everlasting love. god bless you all. xx

This is one of my all time favorites.I'm thankful to Burt Bacharach for choosing Gene to do this timeless song.

Gene, R.I.P.----Thank You

No one can do Gene, but Gene!

@evildcvma
Right on brother!

i love this song over and over

Wonderful!

No one can say it like Gene Pitney!

wunderschone

I'm old and expeirenced, grew up with Gene, this one hits the nail on the head, better to have loved and lost than to never haved loved.

Lovely song

I think it's clearly "we have to PAY"

tyvole :D

About the LYRICS. " we have to try " ? Could be we have to bear, pay or bring , I am not sure.
Thanks for posting.

Bacharach-David song.
Couldn't go wrong.

Thanks for posting this. I still love Gene Pitney music. I saw him in concert, along with Chad and Jeremy, years ago, he was fantastic!

Beautiful song! One of my favorite Gene Pitney songs. I love the musical arrangement as well with the mandolin (or some kind of lute), chimes, and musette accordion. There's definitely a European flavor to this wonderful recording.

Although he had many great hits, this was my favorite of Gene's. What a voice!! So sorely missed.

Nice, but I prefer Petula Clark's version...

just sensational - give in to the emotion and ride the borderlands of heartache

Linny...this is for you

This is one of Bacharach & David's more underappreciated opuses.

A Pitney classic from the wonderful summer of 1963. Very under-rated. Thanks so much for posting it.