Only Love is an unidentified pop rock cover of Lea Hart's 1989 song of the same name.
Search History[]
The song was first posted to WatZatSong on October 20th, 2012, by user frame13245. They said it was from the late 1980s or early 1990s, but they didn’t provide any information about where the song came from, and the snippet was less than 30 seconds.
On November 28th, 2015, a longer snippet was posted to tunnel.ru, a Russian music forum, by user Johny1964 along with multiple other unidentified songs, giving this one the placeholder name "Only Love". He said the songs were recorded onto magnetic tapes, but he didn't provide any additional information.
Over time, the song was reuploaded to YouTube by several users, such as Eccote, Ofrix, Q, Murphy, and multiple others, amassing 2k over views.
On April 2nd, 2022, user Fatbird commented on Eccote's reupload, saying he discovered that the song was a cover of Only Love by Lea Hart, released in 1989. He said that the song was recorded by mutliple artists, but he couldn't find the version Johny posted.[1]
On August 20th, 2023, YouTube user Scofdie managed to get in contact with the second OP, who said the song was recorded around 1992 off of a Russian radio station. He doesn't remember the specific station, but he mostly listened to Маяк and М-бис волна, though he believes it was a different station.[2]
Lyrics[]
—[???]
Don't you know me?
Makes another way I got to try
Someone said:
"Nothing should last forever"
But I'm still holding on
Who just to [hold?] you
(It's only love)
Only love
(It's only love)
Till you're ready to surrender
I'll be waiting, so remember
(It's only love)
Only love
(It's only love)
I'm gonna give you one more chance to save our romance
To save our romance
[???] just standing here
I will not wait forever
So let me make it clear
I am just waiting
I am—
