SUNDAY MORNING
MAROON 5
SONGWRITERS: JESSE CARMICHAEL; ADAM LEVINE; RYAN DUSICK; MICKEY
MADDEN & JAMES VALENTINE.
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SONGS ABOUT JANE
LABEL: OCTONE
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 2002
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los
Angeles, California.
It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam
Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael,
lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt
Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi-instrumentalist Sam Farrar.
Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden,
and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in
1994, while they were still in high school.
After self-releasing their independent album We
Like Digging?, the band signed to Reprise
Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. The album garnered a tepid
response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused
on college. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, pursuing a
different direction and adding guitarist Valentine. The band signed with Octone Records,
an independent record label with a separate joint venture relationship with J
Records and released their debut album Songs
About Jane in June 2002. Aided by the singles,
"Harder to Breathe",
"This Love" and "She Will Be Loved",
the album peaked at number six on the Billboard
200 chart, and went quadruple platinum
in 2005. In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 2006, Dusick left the band
after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by
Matt Flynn.
The band's second álbum It Won't Be Soon Before Long, was
released in May 2007. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200
chart and the lead single "Makes
Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one
single on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2010, the band released the third álbum Hands
All Over, to mixed reviews, re-releasing a year later
to include the single "Moves
like Jagger", which topped the Billboard
Hot 100. In 2012, Carmichael left the group and was replaced by musician PJ Morton,
as the band released the fourth album Overexposed,
with the song "One More Night", topping the Billboard Hot
100 chart for nine consecutive weeks.
In 2014, Carmichael rejoined the band
alongside Morton to record the fifth álbum V (pronounced: "five"), with the band signed to Interscope
Records and Levine's own label 222 Records.
Following the release of V, it reached number one on the Billboard 200.
In 2016, Maroon 5 recruited their long-time collaborator Sam Farrar, as the
band continued for the sixth studio álbum Red
Pill Blues, which was released in November
2017. With the
addition of Morton and Farrar, the band's lineup increased to seven members.
The successful singles of both albums "Sugar" and "Girls
Like You" peaked at numbers two and one on the Hot 100 chart
respectively. Maroon 5 has sold more than 120 million records,
making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Songs About Jane is the debut studio album by
American pop rock band Maroon 5.
The album was released on June 25, 2002 by Octone and J Records.
It became a sleeper hit with the help of five singles that attained chart success, including
the Billboard hit "Harder
to Breathe" and international hits
"This Love" and "She Will Be Loved".
The
album was re-released on October 14, 2003, becoming a huge international
commercial and critical success. It topped the album charts in Australia,
France, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and
reached the top-ten in 17 other countries. At the
end of 2004, the album reached the top-ten of the US Billboard 200 chart. It had sold nearly 2.7 million copies by the end of 2004, and
over 5.1 million copies in the U.S. by August 2015. It has sold over 10 million
copies worldwide as of 2007.
On June 5, 2012, the band released the
album's 10th anniversary edition, to coincide with their fourth studio álbum Overexposed.
Sunday morning rain is falling
Steal some covers, share some skin
Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable
You twist to fit the mold that I am in
But things just get
so crazy
Living life gets hard to do
And I would gladly hit the road
Get up and go if I knew
That someday it would lead me back to you
That someday it would lead me back to you
Someday
That maybe all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
And I never want to leave
Fingers trace your
every outline
Paint a picture with my hands
And back and forth we sway
Like branches in a storm
Change of weather
Still together when it ends
That maybe all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
And I never want to leave
Yeah, oohh yeah
But things just get
so crazy
Living life gets hard to do
Sunday morning rain is falling
And I'm calling out to you
Singing someday it will bring me back to you
Find a way to bring myself back home to you
You may not know
That maybe all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
Driving slow, yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
There's a flower in
your hair
I'm a flower in your hair
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah
yeah
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
Whoa, yeah.