AARON TIPPIN - THAT'S CLOSE AS I'LL GET TO LOVIN' YOU

 THAT'S CLOSE AS I'LL GET 

                TO LOVIN' YOU

AARON TIPPIN 

SONGWRITERS: PAUL JEFFERSON/SALLY DWORSKY/JAN LEYERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THAT’S CLOSE AS I’LL GET TO LOVIN’ YOU

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1995

 

           Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country musician and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, "You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation álbum Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009.

          Tippin has released a total of nine studio albums and two compilations, with six gold certifications and one platinum certification among them. In addition, he has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three Number Ones: "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (1992), "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" (1995), and "Kiss This" (2000), as well as the top ten hits "You've Got to Stand for Something", "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way", "My Blue Angel", "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", "For You I Will", and "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly".

Maybe we'll never be seen together
At night on a crowded street
I may never reach across your body
And kill the light when you're asleep
 
Maybe I'll never watch you dressing
Or sound too familiar on the phone
But I can touch your hand that's against me
And take that moment home
 
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
Even though there's nothing else I'd rather do
I can dream, I can hope, I can see but still I know
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
 
I won't be there when you need holding
But I'm sure that he can pull you through
But I can sing this song to everybody
And pretend it's not about you
 
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
Even though there's nothing else I'd rather do
I can dream, I can hope, I can see but still I know
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
 
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
Even though there's nothing else I'd rather do
I can dream, I can hope, I can see but still I know
That's as close as I'll get to loving you
That's as close as I'll get to
Yeah, that's as close as I'll get to
That's as close as I'll get to loving you.