BONNIE TYLER - TAKE ME BACK

TAKE ME BACK

BONNIE TYLER

SONGWRITER: BILLY CROSS

COUNTRY: GALES(WELSH)

ALBUM: FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF NIGHT

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1983

 

    Gaynor Sullivan(née Hopkins; born 8 June 1951), known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, is a Welsh singer who is known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1978 single "It's a Heartache" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.

      In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tyler's biggest hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the lead single from her 1983 UK chart-topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tyler's other major 1980s hit "Holding Out for a Hero". She had success in mainland Europe during the 1990s with Dieter Bohlen, who wrote and produced her hit "Bitterblue". In 2003, Tyler re-recorded "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with singer Kareen Antonn. Their bilingual duet, titled "Si demain... (Turn Around)", topped the French charts.

    Rocks and Honey was released in 2013 and features the single "Believe in Me", which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. After reuniting with the producer David Mackay, she released Between the Earth and the Stars(2019) and The Best Is Yet to Come(2021).

    Her work has earned her three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations, among other accolades.

       Faster Than the Speed of Night is the fifth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released first in Europe on 8 April 1983 and later that year in the US through Columbia Records. Tyler had changed musical direction and soon after began working with Jim Steinman, who produced the album and wrote its most successful single "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

       Faster Than the Speed of Night reached Nº 1 in the UK Albums Chart, and was certified Silver in the UK, Platinum in the US, and Double Platinum in Canada.

You said it's over now

It's just not right

You said there's a better place for you to be

It's not with me

Then you turned and walked away

I can't believe what I see

And I can't go to sleep at night when I think of how it used to be

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

She takes you out in style

She treats you right

She gives you all the things I never could, she's so good

But don't you think of me

Baby late at night

And I just can't take it boy, together we could be so right

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

All those things we did before

Whatever happened to them

And all those things I've been living for

Gotta start 'em all over again

 

You said it couldn't last

That we were meant to part

A guy like you and a girl like me didn't stand a chance - not from the

Start

But then you looked at me

I had to ask you why

As I see and try to find out why you left me for those hungry eyes

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back.