ESPERANZA SPALDING - OVERJOYED

OVERJOYED

ESPERANZA SPALDING

SONGWRITER: STEVIE WONDER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: OVERJOYED

LABEL: HEADS UP

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2008

The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is an award given to a composer or performer for his or her lifetime contributions to popular music. Created in 2007 by the United States Library of Congress, the prize is named after brothers George and Ira Gershwin, whose contributions to popular music included songs such as "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," and "Someone to Watch Over Me," the orchestral pieces Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, and the opera Porgy and Bess. Smokey Robinson was named the 2016 recipient.

On September 3, 2008, the Library announced that Stevie Wonder would become the second recipient of the honor. President Barack Obama presented Wonder with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize at a February 25, 2009 White House ceremony. Performers included Wonder as well as India.Arie, Tony Bennett, Wayne Brady, Anita Johnson, Diana Krall, Mary Mary, Martina McBride, Rickey Minor, Paul Simon, Esperanza Spalding and will.i.am.

Over time

I've been building my castle of love

Just for two

Though you never knew you were my reason

I''ve gone much too far

For you now to say

That I've got to throw

My castle away

Over dreams

I have picked out a perfect come true

Though you never knew it was of you I've been dreaming

The sand man has come

From too far away

For you to say come

Back some other day

And though you don't believe that they do

They do come true

For did my dreams

Come true when I looked at you

And maybe too if you would believe
You too might be

Overjoyed

Over love

Over me

Over hearts

I have painfully turned every stone

Just to find

I have found what I've

searched to discover

I come much too far

For me now to find

The love that I sought

Can never be mine

And though you don't believe that they do

They do come true

For did my dreams

Come true when I looked at you

And maybe too if you would believe

You too might be

Overjoyed

Over love

Over me

And though the odds say improbable

What do they know

For in romance

All true love needs is a chance

And maybe with a chance you will find

You too like I

Overjoyed

Over love

Over you

Over you.