For madonna, I can definitely feel how loss, sadness and heartbreak feel to her. Two broken marriages, her feelings about the loss and sad death of her mother and an overall sadness in her beautiful evita/w. E voice. The three qualities manifest in her earliest ballad love don't live here anymore-the first hint she had a beautiful voice to go along with her sexual image. In love don't live here anymore, never has madonna felt so sad, dejected and heartbroken in her life-proving that even rock queens cry-the first time lady ciccone cried on record. For madonna, that sadness would become her musical trademark and hallmark of an american life. Beautiful sad ballad-love don't live here anymore. Further proof love does live here in our hearts, thanks to a good woman named madonna.

Live to tell is a very beautiful song that clearly means a lot to madonna. It's definitely the rock equivalent of F. Scott fitzgerald's cautionary novel the great gatsby-about how madonna rises and triumphs in the face of a harrowing childhood to get to where she is today-the best rock singer of her generation. Her beautiful voice gathers all the strength it can muster-there is sadness. More than that-there's hope in live to tell. In the evidence of madonna's brilliance!