Outlaw (Olive song)
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| "Outlaw" | ||||
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| Single by Olive | ||||
| from the album Extra Virgin | ||||
| Released | August 1997 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop | |||
| Length | 3:53 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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"Outlaw" is a song written by Tim Kellett and Robin Taylor-Firth, and performed by British trip hop group Olive on their 1996 album Extra Virgin. It was released in August 1997 by RCA as the follow-up to the group's number one single "You're Not Alone". The single charted at number fourteen in the UK Singles Chart.
The lyric concerns a woman's discovery that her boyfriend has been sleeping with another man. The main chorus couplet - "Couldn't you have told me before? / I would have loved you so much more" - suggests that her problem is not so much that her boyfriend is gay or bisexual, but simply that he lied to her about himself, and that under other circumstances they could have been good friends.