LOST IN YOUR LOVE

BRANDON LAKE, FEAT. SARAH REEVES
SONGWRITERS: BRANDON LAKE & SARAH ELIZABETH REEVES
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HOUSE OF MIRACLES
LABEL: BETHEL MUSIC
GENRE: CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP MUSIC/GOSPEL
YEAR: 2020
 
        Michael Brandon Lake is an American Christian worship singer, songwriter and worship pastor. Lake is a member of the Bethel Music collective and the Maverick City Music collective, and serves as a worship pastor at Seacoast Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Lake began his recording career with a successful crowdfunding campaign to produce an album in 2015, which resulted in the independent release of his debut studio album, Closer, in 2016.
        Lake signed with Bethel Music in January 2019, and made his debut on the record label by releasing his version of Tasha Cobbs Leonard's hit single "This Is a Move". Due to his contributions as a songwriter on "This Is a Move", Lake received the GMA Dove Award Gospel Worship Recorded Song of the Year in the 2019 GMA Dove Award. "This Is a Move" also earned Lake his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Gospel Performance/Song in the 2020 Grammy Awards. In 2020, he released his second studio album House of Miracles, which contained the singles "I Need a Ghost" and "Just Like Heaven". House of Miracles debuted at No. 22 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums Chart in the United States. He also featured on the Elevation Worship's hit single "Graves into Gardens" which became the first number one Hot Christian Songs chart single for both acts, and peaked at number two on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in the United States.
         House of Miracles is the second studio album by American contemporary worship musician Brandon Lake. Bethel Music released the album on August 28, 2020. The album contains guest appearances by Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Sarah Reeves. The album was produced by David Leonard, Jacob Sooter, and Lael.
        The album was supported by the release of "I Need a Ghost" and "Just Like Heaven" as singles. The album debuted at number twenty-two on the US Top Christian Albums chart.
I just want to be close to Your heart
This is where my healing finds its start
Here is where I find my peace
Where my soul is finally free
 
I'm going all in, in over my head
I'm not scared to get drenched in Your love
Wherever You go, God, I will follow
I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
 
I don't have to see where this road ends
Just as long as my hand's in Your hand
Here is where I wanna stay
Held within Your sweet embrace
 
I'm going all in, in over my head
I'm not scared to get drenched in Your love
Wherever You go, God, I will follow
I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
 
'Cause Your power's found in the roughest Waters
Where I have no choice but to trust You, Father
Where my every fear has to surrender
I will trust in You forever
Take me there, oh, take me there
 
Your power's found in the roughest waters
Where I have no choice but to trust You, Father
Where my every fear has to surrender
I will trust in You forever
Take me there, oh, take me there
 
I'm going all in, in over my head
I'm not scared to get drenched in Your love
Wherever You go, God, I will follow
I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
No, I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
 
I'm going all in, in over my head
I'm not scared to get drenched in Your love
Wherever You go, God, I will follow
I'm not scared to get lost in Your love
No, I'm not scared to get lost in Your love.

MANDOLIN RAIN

BRUCE HORNSBY, THE RANGE
SONGWRITERS: BRUCE HORNSBY & JOHN HORNSBY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE WAY IT IS
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1986

 
       Bruce Randall Hornsby(born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. He draws from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, gospel, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions.
His recordings have been recognized with industry awards, including the 1987 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
       Hornsby has worked with his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, and as a session and guest musician. He was a touring member of the Grateful Dead from September 1990 to March 1992, playing over 100 shows during that period.
     His 21st album, Absolute Zero, was released in April 2019 and features collaborations with Justin Vernon and Sean Carey of Bon Iver; Jack DeJohnette, Blake Mills, yMusic, The Staves, and Brad Cook.
      "Mandolin Rain" is the third track from The Way It Is, the debut album for Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The song was co-written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John, and featured Range member David Mansfield on the title instrument.
      The song, released in late 1986, was a #4 Billboard Hot 100 hit single for the band in March 1987, following on the success of their previous single, the #1 hit and title track of their debut album, "The Way It Is". It also reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart for three weeks, and #2 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for two weeks, also in early 1987. The song reached the Top 40 on the Country chart, hitting #38.
The song came and went
Like the times that we spent
Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent
I laughed and she'd smile
It would last for awhile
You don't know what you got till you lose it all again
 
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
 
A cool evening dance
Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill
From the air till they play the last song
I'll do my time
Keeping you off my mind but there's moments
That I find, I'm not feeling too strong
 
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
 
Running down by the lakeshore
She did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin
Now it's washing her away once again
 
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
 
The boat's steaming in
I wat
H the sidewheel spin and I
Think about her when I hear that whistle blow
I can't change my mind
I knew all the time that she'd go
But that's a choice I made long ago
 
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go.

I FEEL FOR YOU

CHAKA KHAN
SONGWRITER: PRINCE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: I FEEL FOR YOU
LABEL: WARNER BROS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 1984
 
       Yvette Marie Stevens(born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Known as the "Queen of Funk", Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with "I Feel for You" in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammy Awards and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.
          With Rufus, she achieved four gold singles, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with I Feel for You. She has collaborated with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, among others. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. She has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan; the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus.
         "I Feel for You" is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album. The most successful and best-known version was recorded by R&B singer Chaka Khan and appeared on her 1984 album I Feel for You. It became the recipient of two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song(with Prince as its songwriter) and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Khan.
Baby, baby, when I look at you
I get a warm feeling inside
There's something about the things you do
That keeps me satisfied
 
I wouldn't lie to you, baby
It's mainly a physical thing
This feeling that I got for you, baby
It makes me wanna sing
 
I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you
 
Baby, baby, when I lay wit' you
There's no place I'd rather be
I can't believe, can't believe it's true
The things that you do to me
 
I wouldn't lie to you, baby
I'm physically attracted to you
This feeling that I got for you, baby (Ooh baby)
There's nothing that I wouldn't do (For you girl)
 
I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you
 
Play
 
I think it's love
I feel for you
I think it's love
I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think it's love
 
Play
 
I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you.

MIDNIGHT TRAIN

SAM SMITH
SONGWRITERS: NAIPER JAMES JOHN & HO JAMES RYAN WUIHUM
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE TRILL OF IT ALL
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 2017
 
       Samuel Frederick Smith(born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. They rose to prominence in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's "La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both.
         Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The album's lead single, "Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "Money on My Mind", became Smith's second number one single in the UK. The third single, "Stay with Me", was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while their singles "I'm Not the Only One" and "Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
        For Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song "Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre(2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Smith's second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. They released the single "Promises" with Calvin Harris, which peaked at number one in the UK. Smith released "Dancing with a Stranger" with Normani in 2019, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and followed it by releasing a string of commercially successful singles "How Do You Sleep?", "To Die For", and "I'm Ready" with Demi Lovato; all of which feature on Smith's third album, Love Goes.
       As of April 2021, Smith has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Their achievements include four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Smith is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns.
          The Thrill of It All is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Sam Smith. It was released on 3 November 2017 through Capitol Records.
I choose me
And I know that’s selfish, love
You are a dream
And I can’t thank you enough
But I give another piece of me away
Every waking day that I’m with you
 
Am I a monster?
What will your family think of me?
They brought me in
They helped me out with everything
But I give a little piece of me away
Every single day
 
So I pick up the pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away
 
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
 
Love you so Much
That I have to let you go
I’ll miss your touch
And the secrets we both know
But it would be wrong for me to stay
And I’ll just give you hope
 
So I pick up the pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away
 
I can’t stop crying
I hate that I’ve caused you pain
But I can’t deny it
I just don’t feel the same
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk Away
 
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
 
So I pick up the pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away.