Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Mickey Thomas – lead vocals
Grace Slick – lead vocals
Donny Baldwin – drums, electronic drums, backing vocals
Craig Chaquico – guitars
Pete Sears – bass, synth bass
Additional background vocals: Peter Beckett, Simon Climie, J.C. Crowley, Lorraine Devon, Siedah Garrett, Phillip Ingram, Martin Page, Chris Sutton, Oren Waters, Ina Wolf
Written by Bernie Taupin & Martin Page. Produced by Peter Wolf & Jeremy Smith, recorded 1985. Released on Knee Deep in the Hoopla (Grunt Records, September 1985) as the album’s closing track.
“Love Rusts” is widely singled out by critics as the standout cut on Knee Deep in the Hoopla — a moody, dramatic duet between Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick tracing the breakdown of a relationship, and one of only two songs on the record to feature both singers together. It closes the album on a quieter, more atmospheric note compared to the uptempo pop of tracks like “We Built This City.”
Jefferson Starship – Love Rusts Lyrics
Here I am now, somewhere on the highway
I just checked into some low-lit room
I call my service back in San Francisco
Tell my landlord, I’ll be home by June
But what about me, boy, back in California
What about the blue-eyed girl, you’re but a child
You held me for ransom, like some beautiful bandit
Going down for the third time, drowning in your life
Love rusts when it rains on romance
Thunder rolls in on a clear blue day
We used to shine like the eye of a diamond
But something happened, the weather changed
I should have known better
you read just like a roadmap
Staying in one place
doesn’t interest you at all
Maybe I don’t move
as fast as I used to
But youth is something
we can’t hold on to long
Love rusts when it rains on romance
Hailstones heavy on this empty heart
It crowds the window where I used to watch you
Down by the shoreline in the dark
Love rusts when it rains on romance
Thunder rolls in on a clear day
We used to shine like the eye of a diamond
But something happened and the weather changed
Something happened and the weather changed
Something happened
Then the weather changed
Ooh, I tell you we used to shine
(We used to shine,oh,how love rusts)
(We used to shine,oh,how love rusts)
Ooh,we used to shine
Ooh, we used to shine
you know
(We used to shine,oh, how love rusts)
(We used to shine,oh, how love rusts)
(We used to shine,oh, how love rusts)
(We used to shine,oh, how love rusts)
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