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The Communards – Forbidden Love (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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Forbidden Love

Release date: 1986

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About This Track

"Forbidden Love" is a track by The Communards, from the album Communards, released 1986. Full lyrics are available below.

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The Communards

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Lyrics

Forbidden Love

Our love is like forbidden fruit

But we take each bite with pride, not shame

In this garden where the bitter poison rots

But all the same

We shall stand so strong, so proud

Give in to prejudice

Behind closed doors, we have to kiss

But I long to hold your hand in the rain

Watching accepted lovers expressing

Tenderness and joy

Makes an anger stir in me

For it's something I, I can't truly have

Like a young boy who's denied his favourite toy

I just want to scream, just want to scream

And demonstrate, demonstrate my resistance

Just demonstrate my resistance

Just demonstrate my resistance

Our love is like forbidden fruit

But we take each bite with pride, not shame

In this garden where the bitter poison rots

But all the same

Every day brings another tear

Behind each stare lies a hidden fear

Someday soon we will have our day

Until then, our love forbidden stays

Our love forbidden stays

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

I tell ya, our love is like forbidden fruit

Woo, hoo-hoo, our love is like forbidden fruit

Our love is like forbidden fruit

Forbidden fruit

Forbidden fruit, fruit, fruit...

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Track details

From Communards

1986

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1986

1Don't Leave Me This Way (with Sarah Jane Morris) [feat. Sarah Jane Morris]
4:31
2La Dolarosa
2:44
3Disenchanted
4:13
4Reprise
5:24
5So Cold the Night
4:39
6You Are My World
4:28
7Lover Man
3:52
8Don't Slip Away
2:59
9Heavens Above
3:58
10Forbidden Love
5:02
11Breadline Britain
2:32
12Don't Leave Me This Way (12" Mega Mixes)
22:49
—Don't Leave Me This Way (with Sarah Jane Morris)
4:31
—You Are My World
4:28
—Breadline Britain
2:32
—Disenchanted
4:13
—So Cold the Night
4:39
—Don't Leave Me This Way
—Forbidden Love
—Heavens Above
—Don't Slip Away
—Reprise
—Lover Man
—La Dolarosa
—Breadline Britain
—Lover Man
3:52

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Jimmy Somerville, Richard Coles
Producer: Mike Thorne