


Lewis’ rendition soared from country to country, shattering records and blossoming into one of the most ubiquitous hits of the mid-00s. Hearing this, Tedder rearranged the song and pitched it to Cowell. After Lewis’ triumphant win on The X-Factor, judge and pop mogul Simon Cowell began the hunt for songs to place on her debut record. Bleeding Love Lyrics: Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain / Once or twice was enough and it was all in vain / Time starts to pass, before you know it, you're frozen / But something. Songwriters Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder struck platinum over and over and over again with “Bleeding Love,” embellished with a voice so angelic that it’s hard to imagine anyone but Lewis shooting this to the stratosphere.įun fact: the song was originally intended for McCartney’s Departure album, but his label hated it. Your lips mouth along, whether intentionally or not. I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love.” It sticks to your brain. “You cut me open and I / Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love Then, the hook crashes in like a wrecking ball. “Yet everyone around me, thinks that I’m going crazy, maybe, maybe / But I don’t care what they say / I’m in love with you / They try to pull me away, but they don’t know the truth / My heart’s crippled by the vein, that I keep on closing…” “Nothing’s greater, than the rush that comes with your embrace / And in this world of loneliness, I see your face,” she remarks in the second verse, compiling the mounting feelings rising within her. Closed off from love, I didnt need the pain Em C Once or twice was enough, And it was all in vain C D. The relationship might not be completely healthy, but Lewis is so love-struck she wears her battle scars proudly and unapologetically. Keep Bleeding (Acordes) Leona Lewis Subida por zurajc. “Closed off from love, I didn’t need the pain / Once or twice was enough, but it was all in vain / Time starts to pass, before you know it, you’re frozen,” Lewis chirps on the opening stanza, staging a story of qualm-filled romance, as she grapples with close friends trying “to fill me with doubt,” she later confesses. That final year of my studies seemed to drag on forever and ever. I was free, and responsibility was just a passing fancy. Even hearing it now, I’m whipped back to my youth ⎯⎯ a bright-eyed, disastrously naive 20-something who probably should have taken things a bit more seriously.īut I didn’t care. I was a senior in college when the song, a cut from her 2007 debut album Spirit, smashed, and it would quickly become one of these euphoric, life-defining backdrops. From its infectious, rhythmic-based melody to Lewis’ absolutely intoxicating head voice, it was damn near irresistible. It also didn’t help that I played that sucker on repeat every chance I got. My old roommate Ashlee absolutely loathed Leona Lewis‘ “Bleeding Love.” Who could blame her, really, that song was everywhere.
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