ROD STEWART - SOMETIME WHEN WE TOUCH

SOMETIME WHEN WE TOUCH

ROD STEWART

SONGWRITERS: BARRY MANN & DAN HILL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: IF WE FALL IN LOVE TONIGHT

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1996

 

           Sir Roderick David Stewart(born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. He has had 10 number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.

       Stewart's music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined The Dimensions as a harmonica player and vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars before moving to the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he also maintained a solo career releasing his debut album that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B. His third album, 1971's Every Picture Tells a Story, was his breakthrough, topping the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, as did its ballad "Maggie May". His 1972 follow-up album, Never a Dull Moment, also reached number one in the UK and Australia, while going top three in the US and Canada. Its single, "You Wear It Well", topped the chart in the UK and was a moderate hit elsewhere.

        After Stewart had a handful more UK top ten hits, the Faces broke up in 1975. Stewart's next few hit singles were ballads with "Sailing", off the 1975 UK and Australian number-one album, Atlantic Crossing, becoming a hit in the UK and the Netherlands (number one), Germany (number four) and other countries, but barely charting in North America. A Night on the Town(1976), his fifth straight chart-topper in the UK, began a three-album run of going number one or top three in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia with each release. That album's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" spent almost two months at number one in the US and Canada, and made the top five in other countries. Foot Loose & Fancy Free(1977) contained the hit "You're in My Heart(The Final Acclaim)" as well as the rocker "Hot Legs". Blondes Have More Fun(1978) and its disco-tinged "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" both went to number one in Canada, Australia and the US, with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" also hitting number one in the UK and the top ten in other countries. Stewart's albums regularly hit the upper rungs of the charts in the Netherlands throughout the 70s and in Sweden from 1975 onward.

       After a disco and new wave period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stewart's music turned to a soft rock/middle-of-the-road style, with most of his albums reaching the top ten in the UK, Germany and Sweden, but faring less well in the US. The single "Rhythm of My Heart" was a top five hit in the UK, US and other countries, with its source album, 1991's Vagabond Heart, becoming, at number ten in the US and number two in the UK, his highest-charting album in a decade. In 1993, he collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad "All for Love", which went to number one in many countries. In the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook.

         If We Fall in Love Tonight is an album released by Rod Stewart on 12 November 1996. It includes mostly previously released songs. The album was released in both the US and UK, though the versions differ slightly. It was released by Warner Bros. Records, and produced the singles "If We Fall in Love Tonight" and "When I Need You".

      The title track "If We Fall in Love Tonight", written for this album, The album also includes another original recording, "For the First Time", which was an Adult Contemporary hit for Kenny Loggins after it was included in the soundtrack for the film One Fine Day. The album includes two newly recorded cover versions of hit songs: "Sometimes When We Touch", originally by Dan Hill and "When I Need You", originally by Albert Hammond and a hit for Leo Sayer a few months later. Two other songs had not been previously released on a Rod Stewart album: "So Far Away", originally by Carole King, which had been released as a single in 1995 from that year's Carole King tribute album, Tapestry Revisited, and "All for Love", a collaboration with Bryan Adams and Sting, from the 1993 film soundtrack The Three Musketeers. Additionally, two songs were revamped for If We Fall in Love Tonight: "Have I Told You Lately", originally by Van Morrison and initially released on Stewart's Vagabond Heart, was remixed here; and "Forever Young", initially on Stewart's Out of Order, which was completely re-recorded. The remaining tracks were all previously released on various Rod Stewart albums.

You ask me if I love you

And I choke on my reply

I'd rather hurt you honestly

Than mislead you with a lie

 

And who am I to judge you

In what you say or do?

I'm only just beginning

To see the real you

 

And sometimes when we touch

The honesty's too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I want to hold you 'til I die

'Til we both break down and cry

I want to hold you 'til the fear in me subsides

 

Romance and all it's strategy

Leaves me battling with my pride

But through all the insecurity

Some tenderness survives

 

I'm just another writer

Still trapped within my truth

A hesitant prize fighter

Still trapped within my youth

 

And sometimes when we touch

The honesty's too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I want to hold you 'til I die

'Til we both break down and cry

I want to hold you 'til the fear in me subsides

 

At times I'd like to break you

And drive you to your knees

At times I'd like to break through

And hold you endlessly

 

At times I understand you

And I know how hard you try

I watched while love commands you

And I've watched love pass you by

 

At times I think we're drifters

Still searching for a friend

A brother or a sister

But then the passion flares again

 

And sometimes when we touch

The honesty's too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I want to hold ya 'til I die

'Til we both break down and cry

I want to hold you 'til the fear in me subsides, subsides.