AL JARREAU - YOUR SONG

YOUR SONG

AL JARREAU

SONGWRITERS: BERNIE TAUPIN & ELTON JOHN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GLOW

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ/POP

YEAR: 1976

 

           Alwin Lopez Jarreau(March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R&B sound. The album won Jarreau the 1982 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In all, he won seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more during his career.

            Jarreau also sang the theme song of the 1980s television series Moonlighting, and was among the performers on the 1985 charity song "We Are the World."

          Glow is the second solo album by Al Jarreau, released in 1976. 

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside

I'm not one of those, who can easily hide

I don't have much money, but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

 

If I was a sculptor, but then again no

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

 

And you can tell everybody, this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

 

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses, well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you, that keep it turned on

 

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do

You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue

Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean

Your are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody, this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words.