CHRISTOPHER CROSS - NO TIME FOR TALK

NO TIME FOR TALK

CHRISTOPHER CROSS

SONGWRITER: CHRISTOPHER C. CROSS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANOTHER PAGE

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1983

 

       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).

        Another Page is Christopher Cross's second studio album, recorded in 1982 and released in early 1983. It was not as commercially successful as its predecessor (it was certified Gold by the RIAA, but only after his self-titled debut album had already been certified Platinum by the time of the release of Another Page). "Think of Laura", taken from the album as Cross's third single, reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. It was Cross' final single to reach the Top 10. The first single, "All Right", reached #12 on the chart a year before. As a single, "No Time For Talk" peaked at #33. "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" appeared as a bonus track on the cassette and later CD releases of the album.

         An instrumental version of "No Time for Talk" appeared in the movie American Anthem, which was composed by the song's co-author and producer of Another Page, Michael Omartian.

Well I read it in town in the melancholy news

The front page story is our love is through

The hand of time is cold -- I can't stand to hear the truth

Somehow I won't believe it 'til I've heard it from you

 

But there's no time for talk

And there's no place for tears

There's no reason to wonder after all of these years

Sure we had some good times

And so who's to blame

It's so hard to tell when you both feel the pain

 

After the years have come and gone

The struggle to forget you will have just begun

We had our ups and downs but one thing's for sure

No one will ever love you more.