CHRISTOPHER CROSS - THINK OF LAURA

THINK OF LAURA

CHRISTOPHER CROSS

SONGWRITER: CHRISTOPHER C. CROSS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANOTHER PAGE

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1982

 

   Christopher Cross(born Christopher Charles Geppert; May 3, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer from San Antonio, Texas. Cross won five Grammy Awards for his eponymous debut album released in 1979. The singles "Sailing" (1980), and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (from the 1981 film Arthur) peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. "Sailing" earned three Grammys in 1981, while "Arthur's Theme" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen).

      "Think of Laura" is a popular song by the American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Christopher Cross. Released as a single in late 1983 from Cross's second studio album, Another Page, "Think of Laura" became the singer's fourth (and, to date, final) single to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at Nº 9 in early 1984. The song spent eleven weeks in the Top 40. In addition, the song became Cross's third single to hit Nº 1 on the adult contemporary chart, following "Never Be the Same" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)". "Think of Laura" remained at Nº 1 on this chart for four weeks. The song was written by Cross and produced by Michael Omartian.

Every once in a while

I'd see her smile

And she'd turn my day around

A girl with those eyes

Could stare through the lies

And see what your heart was saying

 

Think of Laura but laugh don't cry

I know she'd want it that way

When you think of Laura laugh don't cry

I know she'd want it that way

 

A friend of a friend

A friend till the end

That's the kind of girl she was

Taken away so young

Taken away without a warning

 

I know you and you're here

In everyday we live

I know her and she's here

I can feel her when I sing.

 

Hey Laura, where are you now

Are you far away from here

I don't think so

I think you're here

Taking our tears away.