You Have to Learn to Live Alone

Song written by Michel Berger, Luc Plamondon and Tim Rice. Kim Wilde performed this track together with Michel Berger on the French television program Champs Elysées on 12 May 1990. They never recorded the track. It is unknown if there were any plans to do so.

Another version of the track can be found on Cyndi Lauper’s CD-single ‘The World Is Stone’.


Lyrics

Michel: We sleep together, close and warm
We calm each other through the storm
We set up home, but in a while
We’re tempted by another’s smile
But when it’s all played out
If the truth were known
You have to learn to live alone

Kim: We dance around the fading light
He holds her closer every night
He fell in love but she did not
But in the end he’s all she’s got
When it’s all played out
When the truth is known
You have to learn to live alone

Both: We fly around the world too fast
We cannot make one moment last
Kim: We love the crowd
Both: We sing and play
Kim: We do it all
Both: We get our way
Kim: When we’re all played out
When the truth is known
Both: We have to learn to live alone

Kim: When we’re all played out
If the truth were known
Both: You have to learn to live alone
To live alone