Love Like A Fountain

I could climb every mountain
For your love is like a fountain
Let it shower down over me
Soak me to the bone yeah
Pour all over me
I'm a coming home yeah

I could climb every mountain
For your love is like a fountain
Let it shower down over me
Soak me to the bone yeah
Pour all over me
I'm a coming home yeah

I could glide across the ocean
For your love rubs like a lotion
Let it shower down over me
Soak me to the bone yeah
Pour all over me
I'm a coming home yeah

Shower down over me
I'm a coming home yeah
Pour all over me
I'm a coming home yeah
Your love is like a fountain
For your love
It's like a fountain

Lyrics by:
Brown

Format:
Released 1999:
Love Like A Fountain / Set My Baby Free / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Babasonicos (Polydor, No catalogue number, promo CD)
Love Like A Fountain (Radio Version) (Polydor, FOUNTAIN-1, promo CD)
Love Like A Fountain (Polydor, No catalogue number, promo video)

Released 25th October 1999:
Love Like A Fountain (Radio Version) / The Fisherman / Love Like A Fountain (CD-ROM Video) (Polydor, 561 516-2, CD1)
Love Like A Fountain (Radio Version) / Love Like A Fountain (Stereo MC's Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Aim Mix) (Polydor, 561 517-2, CD2)
Love Like A Fountain (Radio Version) / The Fisherman (Polydor, 561 516-7, 7")

Released 2000:
Love Like A Fountain (U.S. Version) / Love Like A Fountain (Andy Votel's Bespoke-Opus Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Infected By Scourge Of The Earth Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Stereo MC's Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Aim Mix) (Polydor / Interscope, INTR-10064-2, US promo CD)
Love Like A Fountain (U.S. Version) / Love Like A Fountain (Andy Votel's Bespoke-Opus Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Infected By Scourge Of The Earth Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Stereo MC's Mix) / Love Like A Fountain (Aim Mix) (Polydor / Interscope, INTR-10064-2, US promo 12")

UK chart position:
#23

Also available on:
Unfinished Monkey Business (5.13)

Details:
Ian has since said that he regrets releasing Love Like A Fountain as a single, stating that it was a poor choice. I would disagree. A modern day version of Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition', this is one of the most upbeat tracks Ian has ever made. Starting on Christmas Eve after coming out of Strangeways, Ian came up with all of the song in a few days in his eight track studio.

The lyrics "I could climb every mountain....I could glide across the ocean" are minor variations of 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' by Diana Ross:

Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough (say it again)
Ain't no river wild enough
To keep me from you

In live versions, Ian was fond of going off on a tangent by repeating words ending with '-ation', copying Stevie Wonder on 'Pastime Paradise':

Dissipation
Race relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation...to the peace of the world

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