Love and Affection

"Love and Affection" is a song by Def Leppard and is the twelfth track on their 1987 album Hysteria.

Track Listing

12": Bludgeon Riffola / Phonogram (UK)

"Hysteria"
"Ride Into the Sun"
"Love and Affection (Live)"

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / Phonogram / U.K. LEPCD3 / INT. 870 004-2 (UK)

"Hysteria"
"Ride Into the Sun"
"Love and Affection (Live)"
"I Wanna Be Your Hero"

Lyrics

You got the fire, baby, I got the heat, can you handle it?
I got the time, baby, you got the need, oh surrender it
Oh, it's a passion crime with a danger sign
Oh, can you handle it? Yeah
You're just another girl, I'm just another man
It's just another night
Whoa yeah

(Don't gimme love and affection)
Or what you think it should be
(Don't gimme love, the wrong reason)
Yeah, it don't matter to me

I got the heart, baby, you got the beat, take a chance on me
We got the night baby, we got the dream, oh imagine it
Oh, it's a passion crime with a danger sign
Oh, can you handle it? Yeah
You're just another girl, I'm just another man
It's just another night
Whoa yeah

(Don't gimme love and affection)
Or what you think it should be
(Don't gimme love, the wrong reason)
Yeah, it don't matter to me
(I don't need your understandin')
Oh babe, can't you understand me?
C'mon try it and see
Yeah

Oh, it's a passion play in a diff'rent way
Oh, can you handle it? Yeah
You're just another girl, I'm just another man
It's just another night
Whoa yeah

(Don't gimme love and affection)
Oh babe, or what you think it should be
(Don't gimme love, the wrong reason)
Yeah, it don't matter to me, oh
(I don't need your understandin')
Oh babe, can't you understand me?
I don't need it
(I don't need) don't need your heart
(I don't need) no understandin'
(I don't need it) no affection
Whoa yeah, I don't need your love

(Don't give me love [I don't need], and affection)
Don't gimme love (I don't need), gimme what you got, oh
(Don't gimme love (I don't need), the wrong reason)
I don't need it (I don't need), I don't need it
(I don't need (I don't need), your understanding)
(I don't need) oh, oh
(Don't give me love [I don't need], and affection)
Gimme all you got (I don't need)
Give it all, give it all, give it all
(Don't give me love [I don't need], and affection)

Length

Album version: 4:37
Live: 4:51

Personnel

Joe Elliott – lead vocals
Steve Clark – rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Phil Collen – lead guitar, backing vocals
Rick Savage – bass guitar, backing vocals
Rick Allen – drums

Hysteria
Women, Rocket, Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It, Gods of War, Don't Shoot Shotgun, Run Riot, Hysteria, Excitable, Love and Affection