SEAL - KISS FROM A ROSE

KISS FROM A ROSE

SEAL

SONGWRITER: SEAL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SEAL

LABEL: SIRE RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1994

 

        Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), known professionally as Seal, is a British singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He has sold over 20 million records worldwide, with hit songs "Crazy" and "Killer", the latter of which went to number one in the UK, and his most celebrated song, "Kiss from a Rose", which was released in 1994. Seal is renowned for his distinctive soulful singing voice.

       Seal has won multiple awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards; he won Best British Male in 1992, as well as four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. As a songwriter, he received two Ivor Novello Awards for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors for "Killer" (1990) and "Crazy" (1991).

         He was a coach on The Voice Australia in 2012 and 2013, and returned to Australia to work as a coach in 2017.

        Seal(sometimes referred to as Seal II to avoid confusion with the 1991 album of the same name) is the second eponymous studio album by British singer Seal. The album was released in 1994 on ZTT and Sire Records and features the worldwide smash hit single "Kiss from a Rose".

          The image on the cover has since become nearly synonymous with Seal, in that it has appeared on several singles covers and was reused for his greatest hits album.

There used to be a graying tower, alone on the sea

You became the light on the dark side of me

Love remained a drug, that's the high and not the pill

But did you know that, when it snows

My eyes become large and

The light that you shine can be seen?

 

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey

The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah

And now that your rose is in bloom

A light hits the gloom on the grey

 

There is so much a man can tell you

So much he can say

You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby

To me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny

Won't you tell me, is that healthy, baby?

But did you know that, when it snows

My eyes become large

And the light that you shine can be seen?

 

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey

The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah

Now that your rose is in bloom

A light hits the gloom on the grey

 

I've been kissed by a rose on the grey

I've been kissed by a rose (on the grey)

I've been kissed by a rose on the grey

And if I should fall along the way?

I've been kissed by a rose

Been kissed by a rose on the grey

 

There is so much a man can tell you

So much he can say

You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain

To me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah

Won't you tell me, is that healthy, baby?

But did you know that, when it snows

My eyes become large

And the light that you shine can be seen?

 

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey

The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah

And now that your rose is in bloom

A light hits the gloom on the grey

 

Yes, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey

The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah

And now that your rose is in bloom

A light hits the gloom on the grey

 

Now that your rose is in bloom

A light hits the gloom on the grey.