This afternoon, listening through to some new CDs I discovered a song that sang my heart to me in a way that had me almost instantly in tears.
Randy Newman, songwriter extraordinaire, has a new album of wonderfully bluesy songs... but at the very end, he's slipped on his own version of an unabashedly slushy love song he wrote for a movie, and that was originally sung by a lovely Canadian called Chantal.
It took me out. Maybe more-so because of his half singing/half speaking style (which at times reminds me of Kermit the Frog, but somehow still works) seems to add weight to it. Anyway. Here it is: My heart in lyric form.
There's something in your eyes
Makes me want to lose myself
Makes me want to lose myself
In your arms
There's something in your voice
Makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
The rest of my life
If you knew how lonely my life has been
And how low I've felt for so long
If you knew how I wanted someone
To come along
And change my world the way you've done
Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all the way back where I belong
A window breaks
Down a long, dark street
And a siren wails in the night
But that's alright, 'cause I have you here with me
And I can almost see
Through the dark there's a light
If you knew
How much this moment
Means to me
And how long I've waited for your touch
If you knew
How happy you are making me
I never thought I'd love anyone so much
Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all the way back where I belong
Feels like I'm all the way back where I belong
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