PALOMA FAITH - ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS

ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS

PALOMA FAITH

SONGWRITER: DIANE EVE WARREN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: A PERFECT CONTRADICTION

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2014

 

        Paloma Faith Blomfield(born 21 July 1981) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. Her debut studio album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, was released in 2009 and was certified double platinum in the UK. The album spawned the singles "Stone Cold Sober", "New York", and "Upside Down", and earned Faith her first BRIT Award nomination in 2010.

            In 2012, Faith released her second studio album, Fall to Grace, which charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and earned her a double platinum certification in the UK. The album produced her first top ten single, "Picking Up the Pieces", the top twenty cover version of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart", and earned her two BRIT Award nominations. In 2014, Faith released her third studio album, A Perfect Contradiction, which stands as her most successful album to date, also receiving a double platinum certification. The album spawned the hit singles "Can't Rely on You" and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", with the latter also topping the charts in Australia. Her fourth studio album, The Architect, was released in 2017 and debuted at number one in the UK. In 2020, Faith released her fifth studio album, Infinite Things.

     In addition to her solo work, Faith also collaborated with the duo Sigma on the 2014 single "Changing", which charted at number one in the UK, and DJ Sigala on "Lullaby", which reached the top ten in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in St Trinian's(2007), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus(2009), Dread(2009), Youth(2015), and Pennyworth(2019–present). Faith was a judge on the fifth series of The Voice UK in 2016, and on The Voice Kids in 2020.

       A Perfect Contradiction is the third studio album by English recording artist Paloma Faith, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 10 March 2014. Musically, the album is a pop album, with elements of R&B, jazz, soul, Motown and disco. The album received mixed reviews; it spawned six singles; "Can't Rely on You", "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", "Trouble with My Baby", "Ready for the Good Life", "Leave While I'm Not Looking" and "Beauty Remains"; the first two of these charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" topped the charts in Australia.

          On 15 September 2014, it was announced that a repackaged version of the album, entitled A Perfect Contradiction: Outsiders' Edition, will be released on 10 November 2014, postponed from the original date of 3 November 2014. It features three new songs as well as a rearranged version of "Changing", Faith's collaboration with Sigma.

I'd tell myself you don't mean a thing

But what we got, got no hold on me?

But when you're not there I just crumble

I tell myself that I don't care that much

But I feel like I'm dying till I feel your touch

 

Only love, only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been a deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

 

Say I wouldn't care if you walked away

But every time you're there I'm begging you to stay

When you come close I just tremble

And every time, every time you go

It's like a knife that cuts right through my soul

 

Only love, only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been a deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

 

Your kisses burning to my skin

Only love can hurt like this

But if the sweetest pain

Burning hot through my veins

Love is torture makes me more sure

 

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been the deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Your kisses burning to my skin

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Save me, save me

Only love, only love

'Cause only love can hurt like this

And it must have been the deadly kiss.