Love TKO Cover by Bette Midler

Oh my my my my.  This song as the Divine Ms. M sings it gets me every time.  I heard it earlier today on the online smooth jazz station I listen to and it just caught me then and there.  I stopped everything and just listened, and teared-up because the way she sings this song just grabs my heart.  She's a woman who has been there, done that, and her experiences are wrapped around each and every note that comes out of her mouth.  I said to myself at the time - self, you must post this at the blog.

And so I am :)


The song was originally written for Teddy Pendergrast by Eddie Gip Noble, but I just can't wrap my head and heart around his version the way I can around Bette Midler's take. It's been covered by many others, including Hall and Oates, Boz Skaggs and Eric Darius... In my opinion, none of them holds a candle to Ms. Midler's take:

Bette Midler – Love Tko

Lookin’ back over the years
I guess I’ve shed some tears.
Told myself time and again
this time I’m gonna win.

But another fight. Things ain’t right.
I’m losing again.
It takes a fool to lose twice
and start all over again.

So I think I better let him go.
Cuz it looks like another love TKO.
I think I better let him go.
Cuz it looks like another love TKO. Ohh, yeah.

I tried to take control of love.
It took control of me.
See you lose all thought and sense of time
Then have a change of mind.

Takin’ the bumps and the bruises
and all the pain of a two-time loser.
And I tried to hold on. My faith is gone.
It’s just another sad song.

So I think I gotta it go
I gotta let him go.
let it go, baby.
Cuz it looks like another love TKO.
Oh, yes it does, yes it does.

I think I gotta
gotta let it go
Mmmmmmm.
let it go, baby.
Cuz it looks like another love TKO.

Boy, whatcha want me to do? Whatcha want me to do?
No no no, no no no.

I tried to take control of the love.
It took control of me.
See you lose all thought and sense of time.
You have a change of mind.

Taking the bumps and the bruises
and all the pain of a two-time loser.
Then I tried to hold on. My faith is gone.
It’s just another sad song.

I think I better
better let it go
better let him go.
let it go, baby.
Cuz it looks like another love TKO.

Yeah, I better
better let it go
I gotta let him go.
let it go, Miss M.
Another love, love TKO.

Ooohhhh, boy you got me turned around and around and around.
Around and around.
Everybody’s got to cry sometime.
That’s what they say. I heard them say.

I think I better let it go.
Everybody’s gonna cry sometime.
TKO
Mama says that they did, that they did.

I think I better let it go
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii . . .

Artist: Bette Midler – Love Tko From The Album Sex And the City Sound Track