Bernadette

From the mountain top where they keep the most impassioned love songs of the 60s, it's Bernadette by the Four Tops, written by Holland-Dozier-Holland.  One of the best Motown lyrics, nested in a stirring arrangement, and powered by the vocal intensity of Levi Stubbs.  Released in February 1967, it hit #4 on the charts.

Bernadette, people are searchin' for
The kind of love that we possessed
Some go on, searchin' their whole life through
And never find the love, I've found in you

 

And when I speak of you, I see envy in other men's eyes
And I'm well aware of what's on their minds
They pretend to be my friend, when all the time
They long to persuade you from my side

 
They'd give the world and all they own
For just one moment we have known

Bernadette, they want you because of the pride that gives
But Bernadette, I want you because, I need you to live