Stand By Your Man

Tammy Wynette

SONGWRITERS:  BILLY SHERRILL / TAMMY WYNETTE

PAIS: AMERICAN 

ALBUM: TAMMY WYNETTE STAND BY YOUR MAN

LABEL: SONY BMG MUSIC

      GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1969

 
             Tammy Wynette,  nome artístico de Virgínia Wynette Pugh, (Tremont, 5 de maio de 1942 — Nashville, 6 de abril de 1998) foi UMA CANTORA e compositora norte-AMERICANA de música country, uma das cantoras mais conhecidas e mais vendidas da música country.
           Wynette é conhecida como "A Primera-Dama da Música Country", e sua canção mais conhecida, "Stand by Your Man", é um dos singles mais vendidos por uma artista feminina na história da música country. Muitos de seus sucessos retratam temas clássicos do gênero, como solidão, divórcio e as dificuldades da vida e de relacionamentos. Durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970, Wynette teve 20 músicas #1 na Billboard de Música Country. Junto com Loretta Lynn, Lynn Anderson e Dolly Parton, ela é creditada como tendo definido o papel da mulher na música country dos anos 1970.
           O casamento de Wynette com o músico country George Jones em 1969 criou a "dupla" country, seguindo o sucesso de Johnny Cash e June Carter Cash.
           Wynette nasceu próximo à Tremont,  Mississippi, filha única de Mildred Faye (1921 — 1991) e Wllian Pugh (1916 — 1943).  Seu pai era um fazendeiro e músico local que morreu vítima de um tumor cerebral quando Wynette tinha apenas nove meses de idade. Sua mãe trabalhava como professora substituta e na fazenda da família. Com a morte de Pugh Mildred deixou sua filha aos cuidados de seus pais, Thomas e Flora Russell, e se mudou para Memphis, Tennessee, para trabalhar em uma fábrica durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1946, Mildred se casou com Foy Lee, um fazendeiro.
       A casa dos Russell não tinha banheiro interno nem água encanada. Wynette foI criada com a tia Carolyn Russell, apenas cinco anos mais velha, mais uma irmã do que uma tia. Enquanto criança, Wynette aprendeu sozinha a tocar uma variedade de instrumentos deixados por seu pai, que, já cego devido ao tumor, incentivava a filha a tocar o piano.
            Wynette estudou na Bellflower High School. Um mês antes de se formar, e meses antes de seu aniversário de 18 anos, se casou com seu primeiro marido, Euple Byrd. Ele era um pedreiro, mas tinha problemas em se manter em um emprego, e eles se mudavam diversas vezes. Wynette trabalhou como garçonete e recepcionista, além de trabalhar em uma fábrica de sapatos. Em 1963, ela frequentou uma escola de beleza em Tupelo, Mississippi, onde se tornou cabeleireira. Ela continuou a renovar sua licença de cosmetologia por vários anos, mesmo depois do sucesso - caso alguma coisa acontecesse.
           Ela deixou Euple antes do nascimento de sua terceira filha, que desenvolveu meningite. Wynette tentou ganhar um dinheiro extra se apresentando a noite. Segundo Wynette, Euple não apoiava suas ambições de se tornar uma cantora country, e quando foi embora, Euple lhe disse, "Vai sonhando", Anos mais tarde, ele apareceu em um dos shows de Wynette e pediu um autógrafo. Ela assinou "Vai sonhando".

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

Giving all your love to just one man

You'll have bad times, and he'll have good times

Doin' things that you don't understand

But if you love him, you'll forgive him

Even though he's hard to understand

And if you love him, oh be proud of him

'Cause after all he's just a man.

Stand by your man, give him two arms to cling to

And something warm to come to

When nights are cold and lonely.

Stand by your man, and show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can.

Stand by your man.

Stand by your man, and show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can.

Stand by your man.

you'll think of me

keith urban

SONGWRITERS:  DARRELL BROWN / DENNIS MATKOSKY / TY LACY

PAIS: AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN 

ALBUM: GOLDEN ROAD

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

      GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2002

 

             Keith Lionel Urban AO (born Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards, and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song "For You" from the film Act of Valor, which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.

         Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley ("Start a Band") and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, and country artists like Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood,  Martina McBride, Eric Church, and Reba McEntire.

             In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, charting four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He started a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

              Still signed to Capitol, Urban made his solo American debut in 1999 with a second eponymous album. Certified platinum in the US by the RIAA, it produced his first number one on the Hot Country Songs chart with "But for the Grace of God". "Somebody Like You", the first single from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as the biggest country hit of the 2000s decade. The album's fourth single, "You'll Think of Me" featuring his nephew and fellow country artist Rory Gilliatte, earned him his first Grammy Award. 2004's Be Here, his third American album became his highest-selling album, being certified 4× Platinum. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, containing "Once in a Lifetime" as well as his second Grammy Award-winning song, "Stupid Boy". A greatest hits package titled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively. In September 2013, he released the album Fuse, which produced four more number ones on the Country Airplay chart. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" was released in June 2015 as the lead single of his eighth American studio album, Ripcord. The album later produced the Country Airplay chart number-one hits "Break on Me", "Wasted Time", and "Blue Ain't Your Color", with the latter also becoming Urban's longest-reigning number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, spending 12 weeks atop the chart. His tenth album, Graffiti U, was released in 2018 and includes the Top 10 hit "Coming Home". His eleventh album The Speed of Now Part 1 was released in 2020 and includes the global hit "One Too Many" with Pink, in addition to Country Airplay top ten hits "We Were" and "God Whispered Your Name".

             Urban was a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition The Voice and a judge on American Idol. In October 2013, Urban introduced his own signature line of guitars and accessories.

             Golden Road is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me". This was Urban's first album to be produced by Dann Huff, who has produced all of his albums since.

I woke up early this morning 'round 4 a.m.
With the moon shining bright
As headlights on the interstate
I pulled the covers over my head
And tried to catch some sleep
But thoughts of us kept keeping me awake

Ever since you found yourself in someone else's arms
I've been tryin' my best to get along
But that's okay
There's nothing left to say, but

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me

I went out driving trying to clear my head
I tried to sweep out all the ruins that my emotions left
(I guess I'm)
I guess I'm feeling just a little tired of this
And all the baggage that seems to still exist

It seems the only blessing I have left to my name
Is not knowing what we could have been
What we should have been
So

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

Someday I'm gonna run across your mind
But don't worry, I'll be fine
I'm gonna be alright
While you're sleeping with your pride
Wishing I could hold you tight
I'll be over you
And on with my life

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and all your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we got nothing left to weather
In fact, I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me, yeah

Oh, oh
And you're gonna think of me, mmm yeah

Ooh, stop me baby
Someday
Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Darlin, think of me
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Baby, darlin', no, oh, oh
Doo, doo, doo, oh, oh!

CONCRETE ANGEL

MARTINA MCBRIED

Songwriters: Rob Crosby / Stephanie Kay Bentley

PAIS: USA

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS

LABEL: RCA NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2001

 

            Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American country music singer Martina McBride, issued by RCA Nashville in 2001. In addition to chronicling the greatest hits of her career at the time, it includes four new songs, all of which were released as singles. The compilation reached number 1 on Top Country Albums and received a Quadruple-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 12, 2018.         

            Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material.

      McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989. She signed to RCA Recors in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, "The Time Has Come". Over time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound, similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill, and had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.

     McBride has fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one "live" album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her studio albums and two of her compilations have an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S., she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year award four times (tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee. 

She walks to school with the lunch
She packed
Nobody knows what she's
Holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress
She wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen
And lace

The teacher wonders but she
Doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain
Behind the mask
Bearing the burden
Of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was
Never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle
Of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn
Out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands
Of fate
When morning comes
It'll be too late

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel.

ANY DAY NOW

RONNIE MILSAP

SONGWRITHER: BOB HILLIARD & BURT BACHARACH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: INSIDE RONNIE MILSAP

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1982

 

   Ronnie Lee Milsap(born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist.

     He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. His biggest crossover hits include "It Was Almost Like a Song", "Smoky Mountain Rain", "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World", "Any Day Now", and "Stranger in My House". He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 35 number-one country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

      Inside is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap, released in 1982 by RCA Records. It contains the hits "Any Day Now", "Inside", and "He Got You".

Any day now

I will hear you say "Goodbye, my love"

And you'll be on your way

Then my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, oh

Any day now

I'll be all alone, whoa

 

Any day now

When your restless eyes meet someone new

Oh, to my sad surprise

Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, oh

Any day now (any day now)

Love will let me down (any day now), whoa

 

I know I shouldn't want to keep you

If you don't want to stay-ay

Until you gone forever

I'll keep holding on for dear life

Holding you this way

Begging you to stay

 

Any day now

When the clock strikes, "Go"

You'll call it off

And then my tears will flow

Then my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, oh

Any day now (any day now)

Love will let me down (any day now)

'Cause you won't be around

 

Ohh, then the blue shadows will fall all over town, oh

Any day now (any day now)

Love will let me down (any day now)

'Cause you won't be around

 

Any day now

You won't be around, ooh

(Any day now)

No, no, no, no, no, no

You won't be around

(Any day now).

TENNESSEE WHISKY

CHRIS STAPLETON

SONGWRITERS: DEAN DILLON & LINDA H. BARTHOLOMEW

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TRAVELLER

GENRE: COUNTRY

LABEL: MERCURY NASHVILLE RECORDS

YEAR: 2015

           Christopher Alvin Stapleton (born April 15, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky. In 2001, Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University but dropped out to pursue his career in music. Subsequently, Stapleton signed a contract with Sea Gayle Music to write and publish his music.

        As of 2018, Stapleton has amassed credits writing and co-writing over 170 songs. He has co-written six number-one country songs, including Kenny Chesney's five-week number-one "Never Wanted Nothing More", Josh Turner's "Your Man", George Strait's "Love's Gonna Make It Alright", and Luke Bryan's "Drink a Beer". His songs have appeared on many artists' albums including Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, and Taylor Swift. He has co-written with several artists as well including Vince Gill, Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, and Ed Sheeran.

           As a vocalist, Stapleton sang lead in two bands before he started recording as a solo artist including a bluegrass ensemble from 2008 to 2010 called the SteelDrivers and the Jompson Brothers. After that, he released his solo debut: the critically acclaimed studio album titled Traveller (2015), which reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA). His version of "Tennessee Whiskey" was certified Diamond by the RIAA. His second studio album From a Room: Volume 1 was released in May 2017, and earned him a second CMA Award for Album of the Year and also a Grammy Award for Best Country Album. From a Room: Volume 2 was released in December 2017. Stapleton released his fourth studio album Starting Over in 2020, for which he won his third Grammy for Best Country Album. The title track was issued as its lead single.

       Stapleton has been recognized with several awards including eight Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music(ACM) Awards, and 14 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. He was named the ACM's Artist-Songwriter of the Decade.

        Traveller is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton. The album was produced by Dave Cobb and Stapleton, and was released on May 5, 2015, through Mercury Nashville.

         Described by music publications as an old-school country, Southern rock record, Traveller received critical acclaim and earned Stapleton several awards. It was named Album of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards. Furthermore, it received a nomination at the 58th Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and a win for Best Country Album. The song "Traveller" also won Best Country Solo Performance. At the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards it won Album of the Year, with the song "Nobody to Blame" also winning Song of the Year. It won the Billboard Music Award for Top Country Album in 2016 and 2017.

      Traveller reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart after the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, during which Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performed a well-received duet. The album has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) and has sold over 2.6 million copies in the United States by November 2019. It was eventually ranked by Billboard as the bestselling country album of the 2010s. It generated three singles: "Traveller", "Nobody to Blame", and "Parachute". "Nobody to Blame" reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart. The album track "Fire Away" was accompanied by a music video. Though not released as a radio single, album track "Tennessee Whiskey" garnered popularity following its performance at the aforementioned CMA awards, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 20 on the Hot 100.

Used to spend my nights out in a barroom

Liquor was the only love I've known

But you rescued me from reachin' for the bottom

And brought me back from being too far gone

 

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey

You're as sweet as strawberry wine

You're as warm as a glass of brandy

And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time

 

I've looked for love in all the same old places

Found the bottom of a bottle's always dry

But when you poured out your heart I didn't waste it

'Cause there's nothing like your love to get me high

 

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey

You're as sweet as strawberry wine

You're as warm as a glass of brandy

And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time

 

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey

You're as sweet as strawberry wine

You're as warm as a glass of brandy

And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time

 

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey

Tennessee whiskey

Tennessee whiskey

 

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey

Tennessee whiskey.

ALWAYS AND FOREVER

KENNY ROGERS

SONGWRITER: RODNEY LYNN TEMPERTON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: VOTE FOR LOVE

LABEL: QVC

GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC

YEAR: 1996

 

       Kenneth Ray Rogers(August 21, 1938– March 20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.

       In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966, he became a member of the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy Minstrels left to found the group the First Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", a psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually changed styles to a more country feel. The band broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career, which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton, and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a character for a successful series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated Kenny Rogers as The Gambler.

       Vote for Love is a 1996 album by Kenny Rogers released exclusively for sale on QVC. It was later made available in retail stores under the title Always & Forever.

Always and forever, each moment with you

It's just like a dream to me that somehow came true

And I know tomorrow will still be the same

Cos we got a life of love that won't ever change.

 

Every day lend me your own special way

Melt my heart away with a smile

Take time to tell me you really care

And we'll share tomorrow together.

 

There's always be sunshine when I look at you

It's something I can't explain just the things that you do

If you get lonely, call me and take

A second to give to me the magic you make.

 

Every day ...

I'll always love you ...forever

Every day ...

Baby, baby, baby, I'll love you forever

I'll always love you forever

Together, forever.

TO LOVE SOMEBODY

KEITH URBAN

SONGWRITER: BEE GEES/ADAPTATION: KEITH URBAN

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIAXU.S.A.

ALBUM: GOLDEN ROAD

LABEL: CAPITOL NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2002

 

     Keith Lionel Urbahn(born 26 October 1967), known professionally as Keith Urban, is an Australian-American musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song "For You" from the film Act of Valor, which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.

     Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley("Start a Band") and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, and country artists as Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and Reba McEntire.

   In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, charting four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He started a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

    Keith Urban’s “To Love Somebody” impressed the audience when he sang his version of the Bee Gees’ popular song at the Stayin’ Alive: A GRAMMY Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees” in L.A.’s Microsoft Theater. The song was first released in 1967 on the Bee Gees’ first ever album.

     Barry Gibb, the only member alive, was among the crowd while Keith was performing. Before he started singing, the singer shared that he grew up strongly influenced by various genres of music in Australia; however, one band, especially, felt like he had an extra connection since they are also from his country and made him perceive that he could reach his dreams as well. The performance, “To Love Somebody” by Keith Urban, was remarkably touching, and even Barry Gibb was carried away as he closed his eyes and gazed upward, possibly in memory of his brothers.

  The Bee Gees composed the song for Robert Stigwood, their manager. He requested Gibb to compose a song for him. It was not a homosexual attachment but huge respect for this man’s talents and capabilities.

     Covering songs is somewhat a trend nowadays. And because of the internet, we can witness the reactions of the original singers while they watch their great songs being performed. It’s a really touching experience when you can witness the reactions of these singers as they watch someone younger singing their masterpiece.

    According to some, Bee Gees are hard to copy! However, Keith aces the performance. To be able to bring their extraordinary music and perform it with so much emotion.

       Check out this soulful rendition by Keith Urban’s “To Love Somebody.” You may also listen to some of Keith Urban’s songs.

There's a new wind blowin' like I've never known.

I'm breathin' deeper than I've ever done.

And it sure feels good, to finally feel the way I do.

I wanna love somebody,

Love somebody like you.

 

An' I'm lettin' go of all my lonely yesterdays.

I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made.

Now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do, mmm, mmm.

I wanna love somebody,

Love somebody like you.

 

Yeah, I wanna feel the sunshine,

Shinin' down on me and you.

When you put your arms around me,

You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do.

 

I used to run in circles goin' no-where fast.

I'd take, uh, one step forward end up two steps back.

Couldn't walk a straight line even if I wanted to, mmm, mmm.

I wanna love somebody,

Love somebody like you.

 

Whoa here we go now!

 

Yeah, I wanna feel the sunshine,

Shinin' down on me and you.

When you put your arms around me,

Well, baby there ain't nothing in this world I can't do.

 

Sometimes it's hard for me to understand,

But you're teachin' me to be a better man.

I don't want to take this life for granted like I used to do, no, no.

I wanna love somebody,

Love somebody like you.

 

I'm ready to love somebody,

Love somebody like you. Oooh.

 

An' I wanna love somebody,

Love somebody like you, yeah.

 

Oh yeah.

Oh, I wanna be the man in the middle of the night,

Shinin' like it's true.

I wanna be the man that you run to whenever I call on you

When everything that loved someone finally found it's way

Wanna be a better man

I see it in you yeah...