“Where Did Our Love Go” by the Supremes (1964)

MUSIC VIDEO

LYRICS

Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

I've got this burning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee

Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me

Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more

Ooh, baby

Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promises
Of a love forever more

I've got this burning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
(Baby, baby) ooh baby

Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?

ANALYSIS
            Motown gained popularity in the 60s, and it brought more attention to African American artists and groups. The rise in Motown was also paralleled by the rise of girl groups in the 60s. One such group was a girl group called The Supremes. They wrote many Motown songs like “Where Did Our Love Go?”. Motown usually didn't have political lyrics, instead singing about more traditionally pop topics like romance. "Where Did Our Love Go?" talks about the pain of a breakup and of love, a popular theme at the time. Despite not singing about the black experience in particular, Motown groups like The Supremes helped get African American performers into the mainstream.

WORKS CITED
“The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go - 813607.” Genius, 2001,
            genius.com/The-supremes-where-did-our-love-go-813607-lyrics.