Love Don't Live Here

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Name = Love Don't Live Here


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Artist = Lady Antebellum
Album = Lady Antebellum
Released = start date|2007|10|02
Format = CD single
Digital download
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:53
Label = Capitol Nashville
Writer = Dave Haywood
Hillary Scott
Charles Kelley
Producer = Victoria Shaw
Paul Worley
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Last single = "Never Alone" (w/ Jim Brickman)
(2007)
This single = "Love Don't Live Here"
(2007)
Next single = "Lookin' for a Good Time"
(2008)

"Love Don't Live Here" is the solo debut single of American country music trio Lady Antebellum. Although the group had charted along with pop artist Jim Brickman on his 2007 single "Never Alone", this song serves as Lady Antebellum's first release to country radio. It was written by the group's three members (Dave Haywood, Hillary Scott, and Charles Kelley), and features Kelley on lead vocals. The song peaked at #3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week of June 14, 2008.

Content

"Love Don't Live Here" is a mid-tempo in which Charles Kelley sings lead vocals. Accompanied by electric guitar and mandolin runs, the song finds the narrator addressing a former lover who has showed up at his door. He tells her that, although she is "passing through to claim [her] lost-and-found", he has forgotten about her, and is not open to her forgiveness. This sentiment is explained in the chorus:

:"I've been doin' fine without you:"Forgettin' all the love we once knew:"Girl, I ain't the one who slammed that door:"Now you say you've changed your thinkin':"But I ain't got a heart for breakin':"So go and pick your bags up off my floor:"'Cause love don't live here anymore"

The song's music video was filmed and released in December 2007. [cite journal |last=Neal |first=Chris |date=2008-01-14 |title=Portrait of a Lady: The members of hot new trio Lady Antebellum kiss heartache goodbye in their new video |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=22 |accessdate= 2008-01-04]

Kelley describes the song as follows: "I really felt like we found our sound on this song, and I was really proud that it became our first single since it was one of the first songs that the three of us wrote together." [cite web |url=http://ladyantebellum.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?id=14119 |title=Lady Antebellum: CD Available NOW!! |accessdate=2008-10-01 |work=Lady Antebellum official website]

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