To Love Again (song)

"To Love Again" is the first piano ballad written by Lady Gaga in 1999. Gaga mentioned this song in an MTV interview called "Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside".

Background

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"Don Lawrence. He looked at me and he said, "Have you ever thought about writing music?" I said, "Well, when I was young I would notate strange things on my Mickey Mouse staff paper. And I've written poetry. But I've never really written a song." He said, "I think you should write a song. I think you would be good at writing songs." And I said, "Okay."

Just a few weeks later, I was in the car with my dad, my mom. We were driving back from visiting my grandma, and I had my headphones on. And I was singing my pants off in the car, probably not very well. He said, "The headphones underneath can't her." My dad said, "Hey kid, you're not on stage yet." And I burst into tears and I start screaming. And my mother was like, "What is going on with you?" And we drove to the front of my parents place. My dad was driving the car back to the garage, 'cause you know it was New York so you gotta drive it to the garage ten blocks away and walk home. Pain in the ass. My dad was always gone for about 15 minutes. By the time he had gotten home, i had written my first song. It was called, "To love Again."

The song is about being in love and the losing it with someone. And then saying we can find what made us fall in love in the first place, and in hindsight I'm like, "What the fuck was I talking about." I was 13, what did I know about love. But I think it was my innocence. Of course my first song would be some giant, theatric power ballad."

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—Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside