MAROON 5 - SUNDAY MORNING

SUNDAY MORNING

MAROON 5

SONGWRITERS: JESSE CARMICHAEL; ADAM LEVINE; RYAN DUSICK; MICKEY MADDEN & JAMES VALENTINE.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SONGS ABOUT JANE

LABEL: OCTONE

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 2002

Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi-instrumentalist Sam Farrar. Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.

After self-releasing their independent album We Like Digging?, the band signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. The album garnered a tepid response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused on college. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, pursuing a different direction and adding guitarist Valentine. The band signed with Octone Records, an independent record label with a separate joint venture relationship with J Records and released their debut album Songs About Jane in June 2002. Aided by the singles, "Harder to Breathe", "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved", the album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, and went quadruple platinum in 2005. In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 2006, Dusick left the band after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn.

The band's second álbum It Won't Be Soon Before Long, was released in May 2007. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the lead single "Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, the band released the third álbum Hands All Over, to mixed reviews, re-releasing a year later to include the single "Moves like Jagger", which topped the Billboard Hot 100. In 2012, Carmichael left the group and was replaced by musician PJ Morton, as the band released the fourth album Overexposed, with the song "One More Night", topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks.

In 2014, Carmichael rejoined the band alongside Morton to record the fifth álbum V (pronounced: "five"), with the band signed to Interscope Records and Levine's own label 222 Records. Following the release of V, it reached number one on the Billboard 200. In 2016, Maroon 5 recruited their long-time collaborator Sam Farrar, as the band continued for the sixth studio álbum Red Pill Blues, which was released in November 2017. With the addition of Morton and Farrar, the band's lineup increased to seven members. The successful singles of both albums "Sugar" and "Girls Like You" peaked at numbers two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively. Maroon 5 has sold more than 120 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.

Songs About Jane is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The album was released on June 25, 2002 by Octone and J Records. It became a sleeper hit with the help of five singles that attained chart success, including the Billboard hit "Harder to Breathe" and international hits "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved".

The album was re-released on October 14, 2003, becoming a huge international commercial and critical success. It topped the album charts in Australia, France, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and reached the top-ten in 17 other countries. At the end of 2004, the album reached the top-ten of the US Billboard 200 chart. It had sold nearly 2.7 million copies by the end of 2004, and over 5.1 million copies in the U.S. by August 2015. It has sold over 10 million copies worldwide as of 2007.

On June 5, 2012, the band released the album's 10th anniversary edition, to coincide with their fourth studio álbum Overexposed. 

Sunday morning rain is falling

Steal some covers, share some skin

Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable

You twist to fit the mold that I am in

But things just get so crazy

Living life gets hard to do

And I would gladly hit the road

Get up and go if I knew

That someday it would lead me back to you

That someday it would lead me back to you

Someday

That maybe all I need

In darkness she is all I see

Come and rest your bones with me

Driving slow on Sunday morning

And I never want to leave

Fingers trace your every outline

Paint a picture with my hands

And back and forth we sway

Like branches in a storm

Change of weather

Still together when it ends

That maybe all I need

In darkness she is all I see

Come and rest your bones with me

Driving slow on Sunday morning

And I never want to leave

Yeah, oohh yeah

But things just get so crazy

Living life gets hard to do

Sunday morning rain is falling

And I'm calling out to you

Singing someday it will bring me back to you

Find a way to bring myself back home to you

You may not know

That maybe all I need

In darkness she is all I see

Come and rest your bones with me

Driving slow on Sunday morning

Driving slow, yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah

Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah

Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah

There's a flower in your hair

I'm a flower in your hair

Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah

Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah

Whoa, yeah.