Don’t Leave Me This Way is a classic disco song–both Thelma Houston’s version and this one.
The Communards were primarily the duo of Richard Coles and Jimmy Somerville. Somerville’s gorgeous falsetto is what really puts this over the top (although I have to give credit to efforts of co/backup singer Sarah Jane Morris), and the energy of the song really was something a little different in the mid-Eighties when the recording came out. It’s a fun song, and a great cover.
And of course, the lyrics:
Don’t leave me this way
I can’t survive I can’t stay alive, without your love oh baby
Don’t leave me this way,
No I can’t exist … I’ll surely miss your tender kiss
Don’t leave me this way
Ahhh, baby!
My heart is full of love and desire for you
Now com’on down and do what you gotta do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can’t you see it’s burning out of control
Com’on, satisfy the need in me
’cause only your good lovin’ can set me free
Don’t, don’t you leave me this way,
No don’t you understand I’m at your command
Oh baby please, please, don’t leave me this way … nooo baby
Don’t leave me this way,
No I can’t survive
I can’t stay alive without your love baby,
Don’t leave me this way
Ahhh, baby! my heart is full of love and desire for you
So com’on down and do what you got to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can’t you see it’s burning out of control
So com’on, satisfy the need in me
’cause only your good lovin’ can set me free
Need you lovin’, baby … need it … need it …
Satisfy the need in me satisfy the need in me
Well baby, come and satify the need in me
Whoa baby, come and satify the need in me
Oh baby don’t leave me this way
Don’t leave me this way no,
Don’t leave me this way no,
Don’t leave me this way, baby
Don’t leave … don’t leave me this way babe …
Oh, baby …
