MICHAEL BOLTON - HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU

MICHAEL BOLTON

SONGWRITER: MICHAEL BOLTON & ANDREW GOLDMARK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SOUL PROVIDER

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1989

 

     Michael Bolotin(born February 26, 1953), known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He became better known for his series of pop rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s.

       Bolton has sold more than 75million records, and recorded eight top 10 albums and two number-one singles on the Billboard charts, as well as winning six American Music Awards and two Grammy Awards.

He represented Connecticut at the American Song Contest 2022 with the song, "Beautiful World"

    Soul Provider is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Bolton. The album was released on June 19, 1989 by Columbia Records/CBS. To date, the album has sold 12.5 million copies worldwide.

      Containing five US top 40 hits (including three that reached the top 10), Soul Provider achieved longevity on the charts. The album spent almost four years on the Billboard 200 and peaked at number 3. It was certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA).

For the single version of "Georgia on My Mind", CBS edited out Michael Brecker's saxophone solo and replaced it with one by Kenny G.

     Soul Provider has received generally mixed reviews from critics. AllMusic retrospectively described it as "more of the same", but noted that due to this album, Bolton "was now stoking the romantic fires in bedrooms across America". Robert Christgau gave the album a negative review, declaring Bolton to be "indistinguishable from pop metal except in the wattage of his guitar parts and the shamelessness of his song doctors." The Rolling Stone Album Guide described the album as the beginning of Bolton's descent into overdone and disrespectful covers, though they added that some of the self-penned performances on the album showed potential.

I could hardly believe it

When I heard the news today

I had to come and get it straight from you

They said you were leavin'

Someone's swept your heart away

From the look upon your face, I see it's true

So tell me all about it, tell me 'bout the

Plans you're makin'

Then tell me one thing more before I go

 

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you

Now that I've been lovin' you so long

How am I supposed to live without you

How am I supposed to carry on

When all that I've been livin' for is gone

 

I didn't come here for cryin'

Didn't come here to break down

It's just a dream of mine is coming to an end

And how can I blame you

When I build my world around

The hope that one day we'd be so much

More than friends

And I don't wanna know the price I'm

Gonna pay for dreaming

When even now it's more than I can take

 

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you

Now that I've been lovin' you so long

How am I supposed to live without you

How am I supposed to carry on

When all that I've been livin' for is gone

 

And I don't wanna know the price I'm

Gonna pay for dreaming

Now that your dream has come true

 

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you

Now that I've been lovin' you so long

How am I supposed to live without you

How am I supposed to carry on

When all that I've been livin' for is gone.