Till Death Do Us Part (song)
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| "Till Death Do Us Part" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by Madonna | ||
| from the album Like a Prayer | ||
| Released | March 21, 1989 | |
| Recorded | 1988 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 5:18 | |
| Label | Sire Records | |
| Writer(s) | Madonna, Patrick Leonard | |
| Producer(s) | Madonna, Patrick Leonard | |
| Like a Prayer track listing | ||
| "Love Song" (3) |
"Till Death Do Us Part" (4) |
"Promise to Try" (5) |
"Til Death Do Us Part" is a song by American pop superstar Madonna. Released on the singer's 1989 album Like a Prayer, the song's lyrics deal with her tumultuous relationship with and divorce from actor Sean Penn, her husband of four years.
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"Till Death Do Us Part" marks the first, and only, time that Madonna has sung about her failed marriage to Sean Penn. Reports of abuse surrounded the marriage at its end, and the lines, "The bruises, they will fade away / You hit so hard with the things you say," led many to believe said reports to be true.
The song is unique in that its lyrics go back and forth between first person and third person. The music during verses sung in first person is upbeat, seemingly reflecting the façade of a happy marriage that the couple fought to portray. The verses sung in third person, however, feature darker music, and Madonna's vocals are overlapped with her own dark, bitterly spoken vocals, as if she is only able to confess the horrors of her marriage when she's pretending that it's all happening to some fictional person.
"Till Death Do Us Part" was released as the B-side to "Dear Jessie" in Europe in December 1989.
