Sappy, yucky, icky Love Songs

[ginscpy]

I am not a big sappy love song guy - but "Close To You" really hit a never back then - and to this day.............

 

[PixieStix]

 

[PixieStix]

I am not a big sappy love song guy - but "Close To You" really hit a never back then - and to this day.............

 

[PixieStix]

 

[ginscpy]

Close To You sounds as good now as it did way back in 1970.

They did some other good stuff but that was their best.

 

[ginscpy]

Close To You was nominated as one of the songs of the year of 1970 - along with Let It Be.

 

[ginscpy]

Been doing some research.

Lots of comments re Close to You - My favorite song , best song ever, IMO the best song ever etc

hard to argue against hearing it 40 years later

about 40 pages saying stuff like best song ever...

can't disagree

Was blown away when I first heard it in 1970

 

[ginscpy]

Was on Casey Kasems chart at #1
in 1970
a staying-power song...........................................

 

[ginscpy]

Close To You by The Carpenters may be in the top 5 pop/rocks songs in the history of music.

Read the plaudits ............................... And I agree.

Comparable to Bing Crosby singing White Christmas.

 

[JBeukema]

oh honey i wait for you in the dark
oh honey i feel the beat of your heart
oh honey i'm craving for you
oh honey i'm sure you knew
oh honey don't cry in the shade
oh honey i fade and it's too late

oh honey don't trust me, don't hate
oh honey can't save me - it's too late
oh honey your sweet taste i will miss
oh honey receive my deadly kiss
oh honey can't protect you from me
oh honey my pain - you can't see

[chorus:]
you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones
i take your life, i take your soul
and love you till your pain is gone

you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones

no god in heaven, my bloodless angel
i see tears run from your heart
i count the strokes of your fading heartbeat
i lick the flames of your fading heat
in my torture i don't know mercy
i am blessed with insanity

[chorus:]
you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones
i take your life, i take your soul
and love you till your pain is gone

you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones

oh honey i kiss you, your dead lips
oh honey i kiss you, just a short bliss
a war is fighting in my breast
not human, no god, i'm fatally blessed
where is the sun, where is the light
i am the bride of the weeping night
the night never ends, my lips drop red
i live forever but i am dead
i am doomed and blessed forever
i feel the pain ever and ever

[chorus:]
you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones
i take your life, i take your soul
and love you till your pain is gone

you don't really need to cry
heaven's for the loving ones

no one there to save my heart
i am standing in the dark
see the tears run from your heart
i am waiting in the dark
no one there to save me

 

[Intense]

Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975

 

[Intense]

Black is the Color Ireland

 

[JBeukema]

Take me, I'm alive
Never was a girl with a wicked mind
But everything looks better
When the sun goes down

I had everything
Opportunities for eternity
And I could belong to the night

Your eyes, your eyes
I can see in your eyes, your eyes

You make me wanna die
I'll never be good enough
You make me wanna die
And everything you love
Will burn up in the light

And every time
I look inside your eyes
You make me wanna die

Taste me, drink my soul
Show me all the things
That I shouldn't know
And there's a blue moon on the rise

I had everything
Opportunities for eternity
And I could belong to the night

Your eyes, your eyes
I can see in your eyes, your eyes
Everything in your eyes, your eyes

You make me wanna die
I'll never be good enough
You make me wanna die
And everything you love
Will burn up in the light

And every time
I look inside your eyes
(Burning in the light)
Make me wanna die

I'll die for you, my love, my love
I'll lie for you, my love, my love
(Make me wanna die)

I'll steal for you, my love, my love
(You make me wanna die)
I'll die for you, my love, my love
We'll burn up in the light

Every time I look inside your eyes
I'm burning in the light
I look inside your eyes
I'm burning in the light
I look inside your eyes
You make me wanna die

 

[Phoenix]

 

[Phoenix]

 

[JBeukema]

 

[JBeukema]

 

[Phoenix]

 

[Phoenix]

 

[Phoenix]