KRIS KRISTOFERSON & RITA COOLIDGE - LOVING ARMS

LOVING ARMS

KRIS KRISTOFERSON & RITA COOLIDGE

SONGWRITER: TOM JANS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FULL MOON (EXPANDED EDITION)

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1973

 

          Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on Billboard magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her recordings include "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," "We're All Alone", "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy: "All Time High".

              Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Among his songwriting credits are the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists. Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein.

         In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup the Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. As an actor, he is known for his roles in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Blume in Love (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), A Star Is Born (1976) (which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), Convoy (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), Lone Star (1996), Stagecoach (1986), and Blade (1998).

             "Loving Arms" is a song written by Tom Jans and first recorded and released by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge as a duet in 1973 on their album Full Moon.

           It was covered by Dobie Gray shortly after, and then by a number of artists the following year including Elvis Presley, Petula Clark and Jody Miller. Millie Jackson and Olivia Newton-John also covered the song in 1975.

If you could see me now

The one who said that he'd rather roam

The one who said he'd rather be alone

If you could only see me now

 

If I could hold you now

Just for a moment

If I could make you mine

Just for a while

Turn back the hands of time

If I could only hold you now

 

(CHORUS)

I've been too long in the wind

Too long in the rain

Taking any comfort that I can

Looking back and longing

For the freedom of my chains

Lying in your loving arms again

 

If you could hear me now

Singing somewhere

Through a lonely night

Dreaming of the arms

That held me tight

If you could only hear me now

(CHORUS)