When It Comes To Love
20th April 2022
Listen to the rejected song for SPECTRE by Patti Russo
By MI6 Staff
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American singer and songwriter Patti Russo is perhaps best known for her rock duets with the late singer Meatloaf, working together for 20 years from 1993 to 2013. But if things had worked out differently, she would have also been known to James Bond fans as a title song performer.
In 2014 she teamed up with Tonino Speciale and wrote the ballad 'When it Comes to Love' that summer. According to various sources and Russo herself, it was submitted for consideration for the upcoming 24th James Bond film, which would ultimately become 'SPECTRE'. The song references the 'Queen of Hearts,' which is a callback to Vesper Lynd, as well as gambling elements seen in 'Casino Royale'.
Here, Russo tells an audience that this is the "one that got away" and should have been in the Bond film.
With the production turning the song down, Russo then collaborated with Regi and Lester Williams to turn it into a dance track. Featuring her original vocals, 'When it Comes to Love' was released as a single on 31 August 2015, a couple of months before the film opened.
Lyrics
Just when I feel I'm holding a winning hand
The world's at my feet
All within reach
The queen of hearts steps in and here I go again
It's not much you can do when love's following you
Tables are slowly turning
And those cards you're holding
Are you in or are you out
It's luck of the draw
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything at all
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything
Anything
Anything at all
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything at all
I swore I'd never fall in love again
Cause I tell you the truth
There's so much to love
But this old heart of mine
Doesn't seem to mind
She gives and she takes and she breaks and takes every time
Could be my lucky day
Could be the one that got away
I don't know away when it comes to love
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything
Anything
Anything at all
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything
When it comes to love
When it comes to love
I don't know anything at all
