Madonna Live To Tell (Epic Extended Version)

NUMBER 1 IN BILLBOARD HOT 100

[@prozie286]

At Close Range. 'Like' if you know what I'm talking about..

[@NateSpurs]

prozie286 Great film!

[@edwardkalima1405]

prozie286 ...yes I do remember her husband at that time and lead role in the Sean Penn

[@smainlounis8688]

Comme un chien enragé

[@bluejeans1773]

❤the movie

[@salcesonik100]

@@bluejeans1773 very sad movie

[@brendaleverick3655]

Her best song, in my opinion. 👍🏼

[@NateSpurs]

Easily.

[@user-mt5851]

Не уверенна...😏

[@jamesaebly1555]

Hands down

[@0812charles]

For sure, the BEST

[@brendaleverick3655]

@@0812charles 👌🏼

[@Toolman999999]

The winter of 86-87 I was dellivering morning papers. Blasting Madonnas new True Blue album on my car stereo, more exensive than the car. In the middle of the night all alone, no one outside, drifting around with my Volvo 240 on the newly fallen snow. When that old music plays the memories returns.

[@MrAdamRschool]

Priceless

[@hirthirthirt1693]

Cool stuff man,only people who were teens in the 80s will ever understand it

[@darrenbooth57]

Brilliant how music drags good memories!

[@JohnDavidcash-ci4tm]

@@Toolman999999 love it any song can evoke the vaguest of memories 🇮🇪 Dublin Ireland

[@th8257]

It's amazing how music can transport you. If I close my eyes, it's 1986 again.

[@deepthoughts8393]

♥️

[@syrkaros5815]

Agreed

[@Markus-tn7wq]

Yes

[@timbrown3646]

🙏👌

[@deanrobson1672]

That's what it did to me and I shed a tear listening to it

[@jennifertaylor7688]

listen to this before bed. headphones only...turn it up ..feel and be the music remember things in life that made you the happiest and the saddest. put them together and you'll see the person you are right now in that bed and accept that all that's happened and will happen..is infinite

[@duchesslustmoontype11a37]

Jennifer Taylor thanks for this. I really needed to see your post at such a horrible time in my life

[@duchesslustmoontype11a37]

Please hang in there honey, I lost my Jared 7 years ago, He went down south with a woman old enough to be his mother. And I thought that he was gay but he wanted me but only when I helped him out. I was devastated and even had Suicidal ideation for a whole year. But I made it and I am so much stronger. I still haven’t found the right man but I know he’s out there somewhere that will love me and treat me good.

[@samsever69]

Thank you for those words..

[@duchesslustmoontype11a37]

ramiro time does heal all wounds !! You can’t see it when you are living in darkness. But it happens when you loose all hope. The despair will ease up first, then after that phase , comes healing and hope comes back also. Then you move on slow !! And then it’s a lesson learned !! And you feel so much better !! And the sun can shine on my face again !!

[@duchesslustmoontype11a37]

Once the despair is gone, you have made it !!!! Nothing but uphill after that.

[@vickykaf]

Dude, when you said epic, you weren’t lying. Headphones mandatory for the full experience.

[@krisztinasz4503]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@markaaro]

If you want to make it even more epic - headphones on while walking in the woods alone.

[@billgoldberg5935]

Her most beautiful song....

[@carlcorby3169]

This and "Inside of Me" from BS

[@raychelsmith813]

And Take a Bow

[@MrDESPREOCUPADO04]

By far

[@neilreynolds5003]

"You'll See" 😁♥️

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

Definitely her most beautiful song, I agree. Her song "Don't cry for me, Argentina" was a close second. Then her song "Express Yourself" is her third best. Of course, just my own personal opinion. Greetings, everyone, sending you all of my well-wishes for you, and I hope you have a good & prosperous life. Peace to you all, for always. ❤

[@scottbaker7104]

My god what a beautiful song

[@DF-rx5mg]

There's alot of 80's songs that "bring me back" but there is something about this one that just hits my emotions hard. I can't stop listening to it. The composition of this song is like no other. Very emotional even without words. 😢

[@JJAssociates-bp5lo]

Likewise, and you couldn't have summarized it better!

[@myfavouritemusic6630]

👌

[@kellysmith4625]

Absolutely

[@robertstaffieri2743]

The movie with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken was as equally spectacular!

[@PS-ru2ov]

it makes me cry when i hear it something bittersweet about it

[@bicyclist2]

I had the original song on cassette tape back in the 80's. I miss the 80's so very much. The music, fashion, cars, and movies were pure magic. If you were lucky enough to be young in the 80's, you know exactly what I'm talking about. This brings back so many memories, bolth good and bad. Thank you.

[@darringraham2613]

Yes we were very lucky 👍❤

[@ur_favone]

It's really one of the nice things (redeeming things) about turning 50

[@MorrisB1971]

I was the ages of 10-19 in the 80s. Not a days goes by without me thinking of that time period at least 10x a day. Just awesomeness it was

[@MorrisB1971]

@@ur_favone Yep I'm 50 and you are so right

[@planetlok]

Being a teenager in the 80's was THE BEST!! That decade cant be beat for the music, its mainly what I still listen to!

[@Cowstache]

All I can see is Sean Penn driving around the town staring at Mary Stuart. This opening scene was haunting but beautiful. Great movie, even better song.

[@cocochansel]

Listening to this feels like you're going to Heaven while an angel sings to you alone.

[@BugRib]

Haha, yeah, I can see that!

[@TasDAmour]

"...The light that YOU could NEVER SEE... It shines inside you CAN'T take that from ME...!"

[@joohop]

She Saw The Light

[@christineleary7874]

This song has meaning for those of us who carry a secret that has not yet been discovered.

[@jaslasvegas702]

I've always felt that way too

[@jackfairy666]

Christine Leary A childhood trauma

[@jaslasvegas702]

@@jackfairy666 Yes like words a child could not say for themself

[@moss8448]

it does haunt one

[@dominictew3399]

right and madonna’s secret was she is part kf the illuminati

[@CrimsonThorns]

🧡MADONNA💚 RULED THE WORLD IN THE 80s & 90s

[@waltermulhearn4316]

MADONNA STILL DOES IN MY WORLD!

[@brianhoward3947]

This song takes me back to my childhood! The 80's and 90's were the best times of my life!! Life was simple and golden... the best music and car's! ❤️

[@patrickcostello4146]

best song she ever did.

[@jorgearias3940]

This song is simply a masterpiece. Period. ""Live to tell" will last forever......

[@AlexOhioo]

There are certain 80's songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them :(..

[@BugRib]

Exactly!

[@tickedoffnow]

If you haven't cried to this before you haven't listened to the lyrics

[@Lee71England]

How frigging glad am I that I was not only around in 1986......but at the perfect age to appreciate - and, thus, 37 years later shiver with the beauty of - what I consider to be Madonna's most stunning track. Yep, this one still gives me goosepimples.....and rightly so.

[@jjorden1976]

I'm so lucky to be alive during the Madonna Era. I'm afraid that I'll never see another Icon like her rise again.

[@cocochansel]

You won't.

[@LV-tr2ry]

In summer of 1990, I was 5 months pregnant and saw Madonna in Wembley, UK. This plus all her classics of that era, truly unforgettable 💚

[@joycegibbs5267]

George Michael said that he, Madonna & Prince were the last stand alone, iconic performers & you won't see the likes again. he was right & Madonna is now the last !! Although Kylie Minogue is a legend but I don't think she was massive in the US?

[@sel3248]

Hear that

[@pierreweee7425]

😢👍👍

[@fgoitia2]

I would like to see madonna in a tour with an orchestra only performing this kind of enigmatic songs.

[@amadeoama]

the world would bow to that!!

[@moss8448]

imagine if you had enough money to get her and a philharmonic together in your back yard...with a few friends

[@raulmarotti983]

Word

[@CONTROLRadio2767]

@@moss8448 i like that idea she had some epic songs

[@salomonkane8359]

Do you feel it? It is enigmatic as you said.

[@nickdesanti2579]

This song makes me think of all the memories I had with my favorites

[@ZONNEKAT]

1986 My soul was torn apart ...just by the words of two doctors ! 2013 I am still healing Words can cut as a knive

[@MCobos]

when she said : IF I RAN AWAY... part , tears come to my eyes, reminds me the strengh i have in my life, and i continue going on.

[@jamesbosko2120]

M Cobos don't run away

[@manuelfedericocachazasanju5294]

HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU HEARVTHIS BLOODY MASTERPIECE ! ....A BILLION ! ....EASILY !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@fineart10]

This song brings me a lot of memories......stunning

[@michaelsondej8564]

BEST ballad in music history ❤️ period! 🥰

[@Markus-tn7wq]

Agreed ❤

[@tickedoffnow]

Jesus this is Incredible 🙏💕💕🙏

[@Naomi.B.]

Haunting...

[@vergon6662]

Yes... very

[@christiansteufelsohn1762]

Best Madonna remixed song EVER!!

[@kittyscratchesboo]

The 80s were the best for music that spoke directly to the soul. 1986 was a very bad year for me too. I almost committed sucide on July 6, 1986. Turing 45 this year. The 1980s was a power decade for the best music in all of musice history from Whitney to Madonna to Hall and Oates to The Police to all of them...too many to count and unforgettable. If I had to do it all over again, I'd pick the same year to be born to have been a teenager during this time, for the good and not so good!

[@atworkstation]

Hugs.

[@bluejeans1773]

❤☺

[@lindadriscoll7386]

I'm happy for you that you spared your own life in 1986... you are such a good example for others that even a bad YEAR can be overcome if you have the courage to ride it out.

[@joelnichols5149]

Amen

[@themoores9817]

I was born in 1977, I went through one hell of a lot in the eighties, Anorexia Nervosa from 18 months old, at the age of six I was put into a Child Physiatrics Unit for six months, that was tough, really tough! Missing six months of regular junior school played absolute hell with my mind & being reintroduced was a trauma in itself! But the music & the films of the eighties helped me through! It’s a battle I will never fully win! I have accepted that now, but then being diagnosed as having a degenerative Neurological Disease at the age of around twenty really put me into a dark place, but the music from the eighties helps. I was told by my Neurologist that it would be a miracle if I saw the age of forty, well I am now 44, so miracles do happen. On my second marriage (4 years today) so if you do make a few blunders at first it is possible to still meet “the one”. Take good care, good things do happen to good people eventually…

[@BiancaAbhaya]

*there's something about this song thats brings me back to when i was around 5, sitting on the floor and my mother listening to it on the radio. Hits me harder. I even can fell the air of that evening. It's oddly amazing. Thats the first song I heard of Madonna and the first one song ever that really got my heart. I felt in love even couldn't understanding the lyrics.For some reason, I just felt in love. And this version, dude, when you said "epic" you didn't lying at all*

[@AntonioRivera-ce4sk]

Where is the time machine?. Lord I wanna go back!

[@shannonvanderhoof4810]

Buckle up !!

[@kellysmith4625]

Save me a seat

[@DJKhrome]

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE MADONNA SONGS!!!

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

I need a copy of this. What is it called and who did the mix?

[@nickdesanti2579]

I was blasting this in my car last week great song

[@nelson49ification]

This isn't epic......... Its a majestic masterpiece!!! Brilliantly done. Amazing song and definitely Madonnas best and the film At Close Range is fantastic too.

[@stanley2004]

Right on !!

[@bastette5475]

I thought this song was from the movie “Shanghai Surprise.“ Wasn’t it?

[@700rider1]

At close range

[@Blahbevava]

I was 4 years old in 1986 but a very musically sensitive child and I noticed this song as it forever sank it's way into my young mind.

[@dulcejoya]

i love this song absolut ever one of my favorite, never tire aboit it.

[@4andronicus]

One of my fondest childhood memories is of washing the dishes when this song would come on...and my productivity would grind to a halt. Her song would completely engage me and not let me go until it was finished. Ah, the 80's. :)

[@wiggsan]

Ain't it the truth!

[@moss8448]

it does make one stop in a lot of ways

[@michaelt5017]

I have fond childhood memories of washing the dishes too! :-)

[@Markus-tn7wq]

Haha 😀

[@catverric165]

Whoa me too haha, I thought I wrote this and forgot I commented. Little kids everywhere stopped dead while washing dishes when live to tell came on. Right on:)

[@amandaamanda7859]

Brilliant - wish the charts were still like this. This was when music was exciting. You could live in the whole experience like a dream

[@Tigerxrx]

This is when song writers wrote music that we could relate to. 👍🏼

[@raulmarotti983]

True

[@corbie1983]

I still do 🖤

[@kenrickeason]

@@Tigerxrx Writers are not writing cause the Artists don't want to be called fake cause he or she doesn't write their music which is stopping the real writers from writing for them.. That's why we have lackluster songs cause people let pride get in the way of making hits..

[@suhasmohan628]

Wish..I was in the 80s ...I love the 80s music..culture..and songs too..all of them had a meaning in their songs..but now a days

[@reinvest83]

First snare is EVERYTHING!

[@afpdasuha8112]

I was fifteen years old in 1986 when Madonna launched this great song..... Now on 2019, i still love to hear it

[@PatricePatProd]

1971 💪🏼💪🏼🖤

[@joohop]

Bless Up Earthling I Was 16 Back Then

[@marcykate8491]

1971, 16 ALL DAY!

[@joycegibbs5267]

snap !!

[@mykeogando9088]

I was a year old in 1986.. didn’t become Madonna fan till 1994 Bedtime Stories ❤️

[@andyfulton2316]

One of the GREATEST extended versions I've EVER heard!! Mesmerizing

[@sirqe6791]

Very beautiful in 2021!

[@christianedgerton3775]

Yes this song has meaning for all of us who have carried secrets and kept them

[@googleuser6164]

The acoustic guitar breakdown is the best!

[@kasudano9717]

The song is sad enough expression just makes it even more emotional

[@sylviegamboa106]

My childhood. Me and my friends in catholic school changing from our uniforms after school in the restroom into our lace and florescent clothes ...all those bracelets and Madonna banned halter tops we wore good times. Back then life was simple. Life was normal.

[@kingjohn3fr]

I think this is the most beautiful piece Patrick has ever composed. And thank God it was given to Madonna who made it into a masterpiece... I still feel the scent of that summer when the disc and the video came out. The 80s that beautiful! I will never stop loving them and listening to this song that reminds me of everything. I am grateful to have lived them with Madonna and with Live to Tell... I really love you all.

[@antkowiak666]

Such a beautiful song! Music of today will never compare.

[@richardcorona3564]

NEVER!

[@zebra64]

Never heard this version before. Stunningly beautiful.

[@georgeclarke3333]

The quality of the sound is exceptional

[@DennySF415]

Epic is one way to describe it. This mix is INCREDIBLE!!!

[@patcomerford5596]

Madonna is the greatest female balladeer in the history of contemporary music. She does not need the puffery of the additional 'classical' insersions to a great classic.

[@MrsBlackDoll]

My mother used to cry everytime she hears this masterpiece. Madonna is a truly interpreter of ART.

[@Marina-em3cr]

I always cry too 😢🙏🏼🙏🏼💖

[@4ndy9]

Patrick Leonard deserves the credit too :)

[@FridayNightQueen]

8:42 till 10:41 is the moment I can't help myself from getting emotional.

[@franciscomadeira5801]

Congrats you are a real human ....

[@yahyahg.5350]

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard 😢❤❤❤😢😢

[@NYGUY38]

To imply this is an epic version is a gross understatement Truly a masterpiece

[@lunnouxhinds8464]

The intro is beautiful and because its my favourite Madonna song it can go on forever. I will never get tired of this song.

[@markwarren38]

Still sounds majestic in 2018,,,and for many many more years it will

[@Petlover10000]

Three songs I will never never never get tired of listening from Madonna: Vogue, Like a Prayer and Live to Tell.

[@ramonapark1854]

She gave me the strength to save my life ❤️ Love Madonna always ❤️

[@-A.M.]

Especially loving this at 6:07...this extended remix of this classic song is fabulous...✨

[@Wildzippy]

When the world finally realised Madonna could sing. Beautiful song.

[@pattnorton3217]

SO GLAD I FOUND THIS EXTENDED VERSION. LOVE LOVE THIS SONG. NOW HAVE TWO WAYS TO SHARE FEELINGS. HEART FELT AWESOME MOVIE!!!

[@JenniferTaylot1971]

"Headphones are key here

[@michelantoni1]

Jen Taylor

[@wallierey171]

Jen Taylor I totally agree with you on this!!!!! 😎👍🏻

[@yodservant]

Yes

[@carlosmoreira3725]

This song is simply a masterpiece

[@photo80sjeff84]

Was in High school when this came out, great memories, the only Madonna album I've bought (on cassette). 😄...best part: ... if I ran away...🎶💯....."At close range" movie with her husband Sean penn.

[@beachboy8995]

Beautiful arrangement and talented musicians. I especially like the acoustic portion.

[@joeycastillo1455]

Pure nostalgia here. This version made me cry cause i have a secret that i hide. Even i i ran away i wouldn't have the strength to go very far.

[@chrissanders619]

I have a tale too. Would you like to hear mine?

[@acousticjamsessioncovers1]

Me too man, me too.

[@rickyallen3555]

The movie At Close Range and this song Live To Tell has very special meaning to me. I knew and grew up around the Johnston Brothers and their associates for whom the movie was about. They were also my neighbors. I just wish they could have made the movie longer. Also, people can say and think what they want about the Johnston Brothers, but they were some of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet. Just don't cross them.

[@coreyhall1150]

What was the ol man like? Hes a real piece of shit but interesting at the same time.

[@joycegibbs5267]

really??? How interesting. I've become a bit obsessed with this film again. Such a haunting, heart-breaking story.

[@Doyledeth]

Liar

[@tickedoffnow]

Patrick Leonard is a Musical Genius

[@riverside321]

Of course Patrick Leonard

[@sashabertold3731]

Absolutely. I wish Madonna and Patrick Leonard would work together again(Steven Bray too)!

[@a19vega]

He and Madonna made the best music!!

[@Camille_Anderson]

Yes! My favourite Madonna songs are from this album, with la Isla Bonita top. Wish they'd Collab again though. The songs always had beautiful lyrics, gorgeous production & Madonna's ethereal vocals! Yearn for those days💯♥️

[@davidyardley512]

This extended version is magical. There is a story within, each note is important as the last, to move the story onwards until the tale to tell will be revealed. And when it is, the karma will not be forgiving.

[@DonnOLucianDios]

How True

[@truthdecay3438]

there are so many ppl's insights on here; i love your karma part.

[@MarcUS.15]

sorry for my english....Im European,I was living over 15 years in US and let me tell you this: At Close Range with S.Penn and Madonna music,that was time of 90´ ,cool life and everything,,,I´m 47 years old now,back in Europe and so sad the time running so fast,for me this movie and music,such a Miami Vice was the best in my life,I will always remembered thease days and sorry,my english is so bad,but Im sure You will understand my thoughts

[@kenrickeason]

This song gives me an ominous feeling...Gives me chills like something deep is happening and I can't do anything to stop it.. it brings tears to my eyes knowing I can't stop fate from happening..

[@Jan-by8kj]

Vyvolává to v tobě staré pocity a situace když jsi tu píseň slyšel poprvé. Podvědomí.

[@kavika121]

Nothing ominous, only Light…✨⚡️🌹

[@michaelhovsepian2584]

it's a Soundtrack song to a Sean Penn / Christopher Walken movie ... " At Close Range " (1986) a very moody thriller about a sketchy Father that does robberies with his Sons

[@michaelhovsepian2584]

​@@kavika121 it's a Soundtrack song from a very ominous movie ( " At Close Range " , 1986 )

[@christiandrumr80]

Always loved this song. This is the first time I heard the full version. The full version is brilliant and perfect.

[@absolutelychampagne]

Words cannot describe how beautiful and powerful this is

[@chloebrown7928]

Such a soul searching moment of a song

[@dmgsoultogetherness6667]

the atmosphere in this song is unreal

[@toe2328]

Or. Perhaps more real than "real"? (...Like the love the song is speaking of💞)

[@kittyscratchesboo]

I bought the movie through Amazon and I never get tired of watching it; that era was very similar to how we grew up and how people were..families and communities...Senn Penn was so very good in this film.

[@MCobos]

amazing words, in some way, not being ridiculous, maodnna touched a lot fans lifes, because we grew with her, her stories and lyrics, i can find a song for every moment of my life, that's what idols do. we love you maodnna, i know there's no more 40 years of you, but your legacy is all

[@JenniferTaylot1971]

Daily meditation music..this song reminds me of flying like a bird...coasting in tears.

[@iampettyrevengeful7381]

Live to tell, Open your heart, The Look of Love are my favorite 😍😍😍

[@timmyhouston21]

Amazing track. They don't make songs like this anymore, such a shame. Great film too.

[@marceloarroyo-l.1776]

This song catchted me in the middle of 1986... and this version did it again.

[@catherinesmyth2636]

Marcelo Arroyo - L. 1986 I remember it well...actually I don't because I was born in 1986! but 80s are better than now. Nowadays suck.

[@kariholm6599]

Madonna and Patrick Leonard was a magical time in music😍😍

[@carlosalenduran4630]

Probably my favorite song by Madonna it's hits me right in the heart. And I love this mix

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

It affects your soul and stays embedded in your heart ❤

[@carlosalenduran4630]

@@donnamariedavidson5065 for sure

[@PHlophe]

Carlitos, Essa música causa uma sensação inexplicável!

[@carlosalenduran4630]

@@PHlophe si

[@mensahcarrelle]

Best Madonna 's song

[@joasdavi693]

How i love this song,how deep it touch me and make me feel all my life pass through my fingers,running from me like a scared animal runs from death,this is the greatest song of Madonna and one of the most beautiful pieces of art already done

[@shayekisitu]

A hauntingly beautiful song that lends itself to the life lived hard, fast, young and free, dangerous, on the edge, yet, innocent, beautiful, pure, mysterious, moment to moment and fleetingly…….❤ Madonna sang this beautifully.

[@michaelclayton2323]

Papa don't preach...because of anti abortion.

[@scottwilkinson9950]

Could this song be any better 💖

[@lamingtonw]

OMG, this version is soooooo beautiful!

[@winterdesert1]

I remember this showing up on MTV as I was getting ready for work in the middle of her bad girl era. It was such a shock to see her softer side. It was almost as if she was apologizing.

[@Wildcock23]

Interesting analysis

[@TheVestini]

Has to be my favourite Madonna song ever. I remember when the original version was first released

[@shannonvanderhoof4810]

This song has been Upon my heart since the early 80's.. Always hoped I would live 2 TELL, and some "one" Could *W A N T* .. 2 LISTEN. 🖤💣🖤

[@johncondie4752]

This powerful song I've listened to over and over the years and never tire of it love this extended version amazing by far 💯❤️👌

[@PS-ru2ov]

LOVE this you reflect on your life and things you have gone through places you have been to people you have saw friends you have jobs etc i turn 41 in sept 2020 and sitting here reflecting on life

[@annehiggins8801]

Wow, this sing still touches me. "Live to Tell" relates me to very painful experiences in my life through which I endured. I'm BLESSED to be alive to tell--& learned lessons a long the way. Wonderful song with a deep meaning.

[@truthdecay3438]

i like your words too :)