MADELEINE PEYROUX - DON'T WAIT TOO LONG

DON'T WAIT TOO LONG

MADELEINE PEYROUX

SONGWRITER: MADELEINE PEYROUX; LARRY KLEIN & JESSE HARRIS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: CARELESS LOVE

LABEL: ROUNDER RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2004

"Don't Wait Too Long" is the only original track from Madeleine Peyroux's second solo album Careless Love and it was written by Peyroux herself, Jesse Harris and Larry Klein. The song was released as a single, so Rounder Records made an EP, which also contained an acoustic version of "Don't Cry Baby" (a Bessie Smith cover). In 2006, at a concert in Moore, Peyroux was quoted saying that her "whole life is in this song".

Madeleine Peyroux (Athens, 1974) é uma cantora de jazz americana, que escreve e interpreta suas próprias composições e letras. É especialmente lembrada por seu estilo vocal, que em muito lembra o estilo da cantora Billie Holiday.

Peyroux nasceu no estado da Geórgia, no Sul dos Estados Unidos, mas viveu também na Califórnia, na cidade de Nova Iorque e em Paris. O seu pai era um aspirante de actor que "ouvia música a toda a hora" e a sua mãe era uma professora de francês. Peyroux, que já classificou os seus pais como "educadores excêntricos" e "hippies", aprendeu a tocar o ukelele da sua mãe quando ainda era criança. Numa entrevista que deu no programa "Live From Abbey Road", disse que a música era a forma de estarem todos juntos eM um local "especial e escondido" da casa.

You can cry a million tears

You can wait a million years

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

When your morning turns to night

Who'll be loving you by candlelight

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe I got a lot to learn

Time can slip away

Sometimes you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

It may rain, it may shine

Love will age like fine red wine

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe you and I got a lot to learn

Don't wait another day

Maybe you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Don't wait

Hmm... Don't wait