Music review: Madonna - You Must Love Me
Artist: MadonnaAlbum: Evita: Music From The Motion Picture Release date: 10/25/96 Video link: via YouTube
Lyrics: Where do we go from here? This isn't where we intended to be We had it all, you believed in me I believed in you
Certainties disappear What do we do for our dream to survive? How do we keep all our passions alive, As we used to do?
[Bridge:]
Deep in my heart I'm concealing Things that I'm longing to say Scared to confess what I'm feeling Frightened you'll slip away
[Chorus:]
You must love me You must love me
Why are you at my side? How can I be any use to you now? Give me a chance and I'll let you see how Nothing has changed
[bridge] [chorus]
You must love me About the song: Evita is a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice about the life of Eva Peron. This song was specifically written for the movie version of the play. It had been thirteen years since Weber and Rice wrote anything together.
Lyrically, this is a heart-wrenching song. It comes at a point in the movie when Eva is at her lowest yet she finds out that her husband truly does love her. Throughout their entire relationship, Eva believed herself to be nothing more than a political tool to get her husband, Juan Peron, into the Argentinian presidency. It is only when she is on her deathbed that she realizes how wrong she has been.
You Must Love Me is a great emotional song but it's not something I'd recommend listening to if you are sad or depressed.