NEIL SEDAKA - LOVE IN THE SHADOWS

LOVE IN THE SHADOWS

NEIL SEDAKA

SONGWRITER: NEIL SEDAKA & PHILIP CORDY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STEPPIN’ OUT

LABEL: ROCKET RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1976

 

       Neil Sedaka(/sɛdækə/born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer. Since his music career began in 1957 as a short-lived founding member of the Tokens, he has sold millions of records as a performer and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and others, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody.

          Steppin' Out is a 1976 album containing the works of Neil Sedaka. In America it was the third and final album of a trilogy of albums issued by The Rocket Record Company. (Rocket would issue a compilation album, Neil Sedaka's Greatest Hits, in 1977; but it contained no new material.) Outside America Steppin' Out was issued on the Polydor label. In 1998, the Varèse Sarabande label reissued Steppin' Out and included four bonus tracks.

         The title track, a #36 hit in the U.S., featured backing vocals by Sedaka's labelmate, Elton John.

                                          

In the shadows

You get to know your lover mostly by feel

Got to put your faith in things you can touch

If you dare to

'Cause the shadows can make you crazy

With the things they reveal

They show it all without revealing too much

Scare the hell out of you

'Cause me and my love

Live among the shadows

Where the old playground is an alley way

Now me and my love make love among the shadows

When the sun goes down in a dark hallway

Love in the shadows where the crowd never goes

Deep in the shadows where flowers won't grow

Me and my baby know love in the shadows

In the shadows

You got to work at love to get it to shine

You can't believe in everything that you see

Not this time around

'Cause the shadows can play

A half a million tricks on your mind

You try your best but you can never break free

It just kind of drags you down

'Cause me and my love

Live among the shadows

Where the old playground is an alley way

Now me and my love make love among the shadows

When the sun goes down in a dark hallway

Love in the shadows where the sun never shines

Deep in the shadows where most men go blind

Me and my baby find love in the shadows.