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Marc Cohn — True Companion
Album: Marc Cohn
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Released: 1991
Length: 4:02
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Baby I've been searching like everybody else
Can't say nothing different about myself
Sometimes I'm an angel and sometimes I'm cruel
But when it comes to love I'm just another fool

Yes I've climbed a mountain
I'm gonna swim the sea
There ain't no act of God, girl
Could keep you safe from me
My arms are reaching out,
out across this canyon

I'm asking you to be my true companion
True companion
True companion

So don't you dare and try to walk away
I've got my heart set on our wedding day
I've got this vision of a girl in white
Made my descision that its you alright
When I take your hand, I watch my heart set sail
I'll take my trembling fingers, and I'll lift up your veil
Then I'll take you home and with wild abandon
Make love to you just like a true companion
You are my true companion
I got a true companion
Whoa true companion

When the years have done irreparable harm
I can see us walking slowly arm in arm,
Just like that couple on the corner do
Cause girl I will always be in love with you
When I look in your eyes, I still see that spark
Until the shadows fall, until the room grows dark

Then when I leave this earth I'll be with the angels standing
I'll be out there waiting for my true companion
Just for my true companion
True companion
True companion
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i love his voice.
Posted 8 months ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:

"There ain't no act of God, girl
Could keep you safe from me"

WTF? How about a restraining order?



How about you keep your head out of your ass for a bit. It's figurative poetry. Such as "I command you to sing to me, Autumn, with the rustle of your leaves." 

You. Moron.
Posted 1 year ago by geonuine    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by voandh2o    [ Reply ]
I skip this song every time it comes on. Creepy af. 
Posted 2 years ago by CassieCH    [ Reply ]
 rtrudeau wrote:

Today's fight card is really something, Ladies and Gentlemen. We have Cynics versus Romantics! It promises to be a real death match! No two groups have ever hated each other like these two! The sound track to today's match will be Marc Cohn's True Companion, which will be sure to stir things up. Just a moment (covers mic). I am told that the Romantics are weeping uncontrollably and may not be able to continue. Wait a moment (covers mic again). It appears that the Cynics have busted a gut laughing. We will  have to refund your money, I am sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen. My apologies.



I am finding these 2 sides fighting INTERNALLY! Today the romantic is winning (and actually always does when I hear this song) much as I hate to admit it!  
Posted 2 years ago by ginger    [ Reply ]
 Matt_Maurer wrote:

My wedding song for my beautiful wife. My one and only True Companion. Xx



Ditto, Great choice Matt
Posted 2 years ago by g3diego    [ Reply ]
This song will always remind me of my first wife who died WAY too young. Our lives were unfolding together when this album came out. 
Posted 2 years ago by ColdMiser    [ Reply ]
 geonuine wrote:


Hey woke person, metaphorical speech and lyrics are not yet prohibited from your gender studies. So give it a rest 

I'm no woke at all, but I find this song creepy or just plain bad.

There's like million better ways to say to a girl "I love you" or "you could/should be mine". So many great poems about unrequited love being written for hundreds of years. This one just plain sucks, regardless of time.
Posted 2 years ago by maboleth    [ Reply ]
 rhlrstn wrote:

Seriously a creepy lyric right there..


Hey woke person, metaphorical speech and lyrics are not yet prohibited from your gender studies. So give it a rest 
Posted 3 years ago by geonuine    [ Reply ]
 radioparadise9 wrote:


"So don't you dare and try to walk away
I've got my heart set on our wedding day
I've got this vision of a girl in white
Made my descision that its you alright"

Arrogant domineering jerk

No indication that the "Companion" has consented to any of his fantasies

Run a mile girl!


  


Easy the silliest comment from any 'woke' person.
Posted 3 years ago by geonuine    [ Reply ]
 rtrudeau wrote:
Today's fight card is really something, Ladies and Gentlemen. We have Cynics versus Romantics! It promises to be a real death match! No two groups have ever hated each other like these two! The sound track to today's match will be Marc Cohn's True Companion, which will be sure to stir things up. Just a moment (covers mic). I am told that the Romantics are weeping uncontrollably and may not be able to continue. Wait a moment (covers mic again). It appears that the Cynics have busted a gut laughing. We will  have to refund your money, I am sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen. My apologies.
 
This is one of the best, most insightful comments I have seen in 20 years of listening to Radio Paradise. When I saw that the listeners had rated it an average of 6.0 I thought "WTF", this is a great song that deserves at least an 8. But when I read this comment , the first one listed here even though it is from 11 years ago, and then read all of the "cynical" comments below, the light went off in my mind and I understood the 6 rating. I am, and have always been, a hopeless romantic, even though I am 69 years old, have had many relationships, and "get" all the many reasons relationships don't work. But I have never thought of these lyrics in terms of "stalking", or "abuse", or anything other than the singer really loves this woman and just wants to be with her, with nothing weird in his intentions. Wow! 
Posted 3 years ago by rednred    [ Reply ]
 sfuller wrote





 

Also our song
Posted 3 years ago by ChrisH    [ Reply ]


"So don't you dare and try to walk away
I've got my heart set on our wedding day
I've got this vision of a girl in white
Made my descision that its you alright"

Arrogant domineering jerk

No indication that the "Companion" has consented to any of his fantasies

Run a mile girl!


  
Posted 4 years ago by radioparadise9    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:
"There ain't no act of God, girl
Could keep you safe from me"

WTF? How about a restraining order?
 
Seriously a creepy lyric right there..
Posted 4 years ago by rhlrstn    [ Reply ]
 Matt_Maurer wrote:
My wedding song for my beautiful wife. My one and only True Companion. Xx
 

Likewise.
Posted 4 years ago by sfuller    [ Reply ]
My wedding song for my beautiful wife. My one and only True Companion. Xx
Posted 4 years ago by Matt_Maurer    [ Reply ]
Definitely stalker overtones here. pxd
Posted 5 years ago by pxd    [ Reply ]
Thank you again RP. I missed this guy somehow. It wasn't until I heard him singing "Walking in Memphis" and I turned off my "Oh sounds Commercial" radar that I gave Marc the credit he deserves. this is another fine song.
Posted 5 years ago by jimtyrrell    [ Reply ]
You mean poor people's BS?

 Hannio wrote:


Springsteen-like voice and schmaltz.  So basically a BS clone.
 

Posted 6 years ago by aspalathin    [ Reply ]
Still a beauty after all these years.
Posted 6 years ago by Prius    [ Reply ]
"There ain't no act of God, girl
Could keep you safe from me"

WTF? How about a restraining order?
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
pathetic lyrics 
Posted 6 years ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
 xkolibuul wrote:

Spoken like a true cynic.  Next...

 
Perhaps, but this song is still in the realm of such classics as "Honey" or "Watching Scotty Grow" by Bobby Goldsboro, only less fun.
Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I am a romantic (also a cynic) but this song BLOWS.
Posted 6 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
One does not have to be "jaded" or "cynical" to dislike this song - it's awful.

 
Spoken like a true cynic.  Next...
Posted 11 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
Ode to a dog ? {#Ask}
Posted 12 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
nimesay wrote:

...I know it's sentimental, but it's lovely.


Whoa -  sorry: at times, "sleazy" is the word that crept slyly into my mind.  Sounds a bit like a smooth-talking bully-boy, used to having his own way with women, demonstrating how it's done.  Not that I have much of an imagination.


Posted 15 years ago by lawman    [ Reply ]
One does not have to be "jaded" or "cynical" to dislike this song - it's awful.

Posted 15 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Today's fight card is really something, Ladies and Gentlemen. We have Cynics versus Romantics! It promises to be a real death match! No two groups have ever hated each other like these two! The sound track to today's match will be Marc Cohn's True Companion, which will be sure to stir things up. Just a moment (covers mic). I am told that the Romantics are weeping uncontrollably and may not be able to continue. Wait a moment (covers mic again). It appears that the Cynics have busted a gut laughing. We will  have to refund your money, I am sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen. My apologies.
Posted 15 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
 isaacsonar wrote:
I logged in for the first time in over a year just to give this song a 1. I seriously had to check and make sure this was still RP!

 
Ha!  Just did the same thing to downgrade my previous 2 to a 1!

Posted 15 years ago by fizixidiot    [ Reply ]
 shayborg wrote:
Very Springsteen-y voice but the lyrics are way too schmaltzy for me.
 

Springsteen-like voice and schmaltz.  So basically a BS clone.
Posted 15 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
 madhoop wrote:


Thirded....  Beautiful lyrics
 
Fourthed.  I know it's sentimental, but it's lovely.  Props for him for being so honest.

Posted 15 years ago by nimesay    [ Reply ]
Marc Cohn has much better than this.  This is the weakest song on his excellent debut album.
Posted 15 years ago by sdn    [ Reply ]
For my Honeyhoney, IWLYFAAD.

{#Heartkiss}
Posted 15 years ago by pdhski    [ Reply ]
I logged in for the first time in over a year just to give this song a 1. I seriously had to check and make sure this was still RP!

Posted 15 years ago by isaacsonar    [ Reply ]
 pacificbeth wrote:
This stands on its own merit. . .the passion in this piece, the lyricism. . .it's sad when a jaded listener's only reference point is whether it sounds better or worse than some other artist—some numerical scale in the critic's head; what about feeling—which is what music is attempting to elicit.
 

Word.
Posted 15 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
Thirded
michaelgmitchell wrote:
Seconded.
 


Posted 15 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
Say 'true companion' one more time ... c'mon...I dare ya!
Posted 15 years ago by Lonestar    [ Reply ]
 michaelgmitchell wrote:
Seconded.
 

Thirded....  Beautiful lyrics
Posted 15 years ago by madhoop    [ Reply ]
...tastes bad!..
Posted 15 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
blehhhhhh
Posted 15 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
 alux wrote:
Bunch of friggin' cynics. Schmaltz or not, this is a gorgeous song. We romantics are going to revel in it no matter what you say.
 Seconded.


Posted 15 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
 inindian wrote:


Mmm, what a band they could form, Marc Cohn dueting with Michael Bolton, Kenny G on sax and perhaps Carlos Santana noodling in the background!
 
And their immensely popular works will be played nonstop in the beanstalk elevator all the way to geosynchronous orbit.
Posted 16 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
This stands on its own merit. . .the passion in this piece, the lyricism. . .it's sad when a jaded listener's only reference point is whether it sounds better or worse than some other artist--some numerical scale in the critic's head; what about feeling--which is what music is attempting to elicit.
Posted 16 years ago by pacificbeth    [ Reply ]
trekhead wrote:
Joe Cocker Lite.7.
Mmm, what a band they could form, Marc Cohn dueting with Michael Bolton, Kenny G on sax and perhaps Carlos Santana noodling in the background!
Posted 16 years ago by inindian    [ Reply ]
Good stuff.
Posted 16 years ago by splooge    [ Reply ]
I think we've found a "true companion" to Wind Beneath My Wings in the sucko-barfo song category.
Posted 16 years ago by gvan    [ Reply ]
luca77 wrote:
Yeah it's a bit Michael Bolton for me...
agreed in full
Posted 16 years ago by DrGonzo    [ Reply ]
Joe Cocker Lite. 7.
Posted 16 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
This song kind of creeped me out. For some reason his "true companion" sounds unwilling to me... which makes the guy sounds like a stalker. Or maybe just a bit clingy...?
Posted 16 years ago by cvandoren    [ Reply ]
Bunch of friggin' cynics. Schmaltz or not, this is a gorgeous song. We romantics are going to revel in it no matter what you say.
Posted 16 years ago by alux    [ Reply ]
vandal wrote:
schmaltz also schmalz (shmÀlts) n. 1. Informal a. Excessively sentimental art or music. b. Maudlin sentimentality. 2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat.
Yeah it's a bit Michael Bolton for me...
Posted 16 years ago by luca77    [ Reply ]
element1 wrote:
Whatever. I suppose you wouldn't be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and figure that he might actually mean "make love." Marc is a family man. He is talking here about a "true companion."
Thanks for posting a response to that comment.
Posted 16 years ago by Ellehcim    [ Reply ]
Simply lovely.
Posted 16 years ago by davie70    [ Reply ]
karljonasson wrote:
I was willing to give this the benefit of the doubt until he had to throw in, "make love to you". That is the ultimate unforgivable sin of songwriting - cowardice. Say "HAVE SEX WITH YOU". We all know that's what you mean! Quit being a wuss. I hate when songwriters do that.
Whatever. I suppose you wouldn't be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and figure that he might actually mean "make love." Marc is a family man. He is talking here about a "true companion."
Posted 16 years ago by element1    [ Reply ]
This was so beautiful! Congrats Bill and Rebecca
Posted 16 years ago by Ellehcim    [ Reply ]
Congrats on the anniversary!
Posted 16 years ago by nevar23    [ Reply ]
What IS this Anniversary?? Chicken Fat? No, wait. That's not until the 40th...
Posted 16 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
trekhead wrote:
Awww....
I've always loved this song but after hearing Bill's story I'll never forget it.
Posted 16 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
aww..sweet... 'the song we danced to at our wedding' from Bill to Rebecca.
Posted 16 years ago by donpdonp    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by ecocommie    [ Reply ]
Awwwwwww song dedication. Congratulations to many happy years, you two!
Posted 16 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
Awww....
Posted 16 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
schmaltz also schmalz (shmÀlts) n. 1. Informal a. Excessively sentimental art or music. b. Maudlin sentimentality. 2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat.
Posted 17 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
Norah Jones followed by Marc Cohn. Call it MOR RP
Posted 17 years ago by mgoldman    [ Reply ]
shayborg wrote:
Very Springsteen-y voice but the lyrics are way too schmaltzy for me.
Very true.
Posted 17 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
My 11-year old son says this is too slow and very boring. It's his first time listening to RP.
Posted 17 years ago by Pazzat    [ Reply ]
junebaby65 wrote:
The only other song I've heard from this guy is Walking in Memphis, which I loathe.
Yeah, I could never figure out why that Memphis song got all the airplay it did, at least here in Austin. His voice reminds me of a Springsteen clone band that had a semi-popular hit song back in the 80s called "On the Dark Side" or some such derivative blahditty blah. I think they were called Eddie and the Cruisers, or Benny and the Beavers, or sumthin' along those lines ... Anyway, this one isn't too good either.
Posted 17 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
This guy has a great voice but the whole thing is just too ... earnest. Wins the "fromage du jour" award hands down.
Posted 17 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
Very Springsteen-y voice but the lyrics are way too schmaltzy for me.
Posted 17 years ago by shayborg    [ Reply ]
maryte wrote:
I, too, like this in a romantic, sappy way. Makes me tear up a bit. But if you really want to go for the King Kong of Things That Cannot Be, try Kate Bush's Never Be Mine: I look at you and see My life that might have been: Your face just ghostly in the smoke. They're setting fire to the cornfields As you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields Will now mean you and here. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be, But I know that this will never be mine. Ooh, the thrill and the hurting. The thrill and the hurting. I know that this will never be mine. I want you as the dream, Not the reality. That clumsy goodbye-kiss could fool me, But I'm looking back over my shoulder At you, happy without me. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be, But I know that this will never be mine. Ooh, the thrill and the hurting Will never be mine. The thrill and the hurting, It will never be mine. It can never be. The thrill and the hurting Will never be mine.
Downloading it now, thanks.
Posted 17 years ago by stratrjb    [ Reply ]
Yep, that about covers every romantic cliché known to man.
Posted 17 years ago by gvan    [ Reply ]
Cover me in cheese I love this sappy stuff!
Posted 17 years ago by stratrjb    [ Reply ]
With the sound turned way down it kind of sounded like Warren Zevon. The only other song I've heard from this guy is Walking in Memphis, which I loathe. He's a local guy so I should be easy on him........I guess.
Posted 17 years ago by junebaby65    [ Reply ]
A buddy of mine had this song played at his wedding (first dance). He has since passed away and this song still puts a lump in my throat.
Posted 17 years ago by volvo245    [ Reply ]
This song just doesn't seem to fit in at Radio Paradise...it's more suitable for Delilah After Dark.
Posted 17 years ago by Smoove_D    [ Reply ]
What's this song about? … true companion … oh, o.k. got it … true companion, true companion … yeah I got you, true companion, right … true companion ... hey I heard you the first 10 times … true companion, true companion, true companion …. Hey would you just shut the fu*k up already buddy?! … true companion ... AGGH!!
Posted 17 years ago by Lonestar    [ Reply ]
Cynaera wrote:
Okay. I'm a sap. I'm a romantic. And, I have someone I adore, but who doesn't adore me. "True Companion" just makes me wish for things that cannot be, which might be why I love it. To those who slam the song, I can only say I'm sorry you've become so jaded that you don't understand the very basic nature of true, unblemished love. And, before you take offense, please refer to the first paragraph, and don't hurt me. Just allow me my stupid fantasy, and my tears.
I, too, like this in a romantic, sappy way. Makes me tear up a bit. But if you really want to go for the King Kong of Things That Cannot Be, try Kate Bush's Never Be Mine: I look at you and see My life that might have been: Your face just ghostly in the smoke. They're setting fire to the cornfields As you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields Will now mean you and here. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be, But I know that this will never be mine. Ooh, the thrill and the hurting. The thrill and the hurting. I know that this will never be mine. I want you as the dream, Not the reality. That clumsy goodbye-kiss could fool me, But I'm looking back over my shoulder At you, happy without me. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be. This is what I need. This is where I want to be, But I know that this will never be mine. Ooh, the thrill and the hurting Will never be mine. The thrill and the hurting, It will never be mine. It can never be. The thrill and the hurting Will never be mine.
Posted 17 years ago by maryte    [ Reply ]
hansk wrote:
Sorry, but I don't get it. Yes, the harmonies are nice, but I can't help but getting creeped out by the lyrics. Does he even know this girl? C'mon, "There ain't no act of God girl Could keep you safe from me?" I can imagine his "true companion's" roommate saying: "Hey, it's that creep again who wants to marry you!" "Oh, gross, tell him I moved away!"
Yeah,that is a creepy phrase. ______________ There are plenty of love ballads I like better than this one, I'm not totally jaded just yet, thanks... Try "Sleep On" as sung by Alison Krauss, on her "Now That I've Found You" collection. Unless you cant take a real country song. And her work as part of AKUS, especially the album So Long So Wrong, and the album Every Time You Say Goodbye
Posted 17 years ago by celadonstone    [ Reply ]
rgrace wrote:
This warhorse needs to be put out to pasture - or sent to the glue factory.
HERE, HERE. Excuse me, I have to go vomit now.
Posted 17 years ago by jessibru    [ Reply ]
This warhorse needs to be put out to pasture - or sent to the glue factory.
Posted 17 years ago by rgrace    [ Reply ]
I hate this song so much that I registered to say please, please, for the love of all that is good, stop playing this piece of garbage. Thank you.
Posted 17 years ago by nbenami    [ Reply ]
Sorry, but I don't get it. Yes, the harmonies are nice, but I can't help but getting creeped out by the lyrics. Does he even know this girl? C'mon, "There ain't no act of God girl Could keep you safe from me?" I can imagine his "true companion's" roommate saying: "Hey, it's that creep again who wants to marry you!" "Oh, gross, tell him I moved away!"
Posted 17 years ago by hansk    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
This one really touched me this morning....
Posted 17 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
Geecheeboy wrote:
Love is great; colors are brighter, happiness is everywhere, optimistic possibilities abound, anything is possible, and every song speaks exactly what you feel. This is one of those songs. Sappy? Depends on where you are in your life when you hear it, and it is reflective, sort of an audio Rorschach inkblot. Subjective, but shows who you are, at least at the moment.
Man,that's some heavy sh#&!!!
Posted 17 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
Love is great; colors are brighter, happiness is everywhere, optimistic possibilities abound, anything is possible, and every song speaks exactly what you feel. This is one of those songs. Sappy? Depends on where you are in your life when you hear it, and it is reflective, sort of an audio Rorschach inkblot. Subjective, but shows who you are, at least at the moment.
Posted 17 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
The world has enough cynics. I can be one myself sometimes. We need more romantics. I know EXACTLY where you're coming from. Cynaera wrote:
Okay. I'm a sap. I'm a romantic. And, I have someone I adore, but who doesn't adore me. "True Companion" just makes me wish for things that cannot be, which might be why I love it. To those who slam the song, I can only say I'm sorry you've become so jaded that you don't understand the very basic nature of true, unblemished love. And, before you take offense, please refer to the first paragraph, and don't hurt me. Just allow me my stupid fantasy, and my tears.
Posted 17 years ago by alux    [ Reply ]
No, but somebody playing a Fender Telecaster at "10" would suffice. So how does a tune like this stab you in the eardrums? Hard for a piano to do that, unless your ears are rather oversize... pinkfu wrote:
I need an emoticon that has one of these little smileface guys stabbing itself in the ears with something sharp. How do you search for something like that?
Posted 17 years ago by fretman    [ Reply ]
Okay. I'm a sap. I'm a romantic. And, I have someone I adore, but who doesn't adore me. "True Companion" just makes me wish for things that cannot be, which might be why I love it. To those who slam the song, I can only say I'm sorry you've become so jaded that you don't understand the very basic nature of true, unblemished love. And, before you take offense, please refer to the first paragraph, and don't hurt me. Just allow me my stupid fantasy, and my tears.
Posted 18 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
I need an emoticon that has one of these little smileface guys stabbing itself in the ears with something sharp. How do you search for something like that?
Posted 18 years ago by pinkfu    [ Reply ]
wow, no love for Marc Cohn? And while I appreciated his two follow-up albums, this one is by far the best, not that there's anything wrong with that. Marc himself joked that he got all his hits out of the way on his first album so he wouldn't have to worry about writing anymore.
Posted 18 years ago by BoFiS    [ Reply ]
kingfish2004 wrote:
Its Halladise Radio! HA HA Not a bad song, not something I would want to hear everyday. But it has it place in a large mix.
If I never heard another song by Marc Cohn, it would be too soon. His voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears.
Posted 18 years ago by fizixidiot    [ Reply ]
Makes me long for a tall warm glass of honey. Just chug it down in big thick slurps, sweet enough to kill you right on the spot. Yum.
Posted 18 years ago by Odyzzeuz    [ Reply ]
pdhski wrote:
Great song thought I found her once...maybe she's still out there
Damned if she didn't find me! Eight months on now and every moment has been sweet. Don't ever give up on love folks.
Posted 18 years ago by pdhski    [ Reply ]
jksteacher wrote:
Marc Cohn reminds me of that guy from Five For Fighting. 'Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing, but it certainly is something.... Actually, it isn't good.
Five for fighting meets Meatloaf This song just gets worse and worse. Horrible lyrics.
Posted 18 years ago by savoyard    [ Reply ]
Marc Cohn reminds me of that guy from Five For Fighting. 'Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing, but it certainly is something.... Actually, it isn't good.
Posted 18 years ago by jksteacher    [ Reply ]
mattt wrote:
I guess I'm the only one who thinks this sounds a little bit dangerous. With lyrics about no power of God keeping "you safe from me," and he's made is decision, and he's got this vision about how it's the way it will be... Doesn't sound like the person being sung to will have much say in the matter. I guess it's romantic in that Every Breath You Take sort of way. -mt-
Yeah, good old-fashioned Stalker Love
Posted 18 years ago by pannaramma    [ Reply ]
Successfully used as a proposal song on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Posted 18 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
I guess I'm the only one who thinks this sounds a little bit dangerous. With lyrics about no power of God keeping "you safe from me," and he's made is decision, and he's got this vision about how it's the way it will be... Doesn't sound like the person being sung to will have much say in the matter. I guess it's romantic in that Every Breath You Take sort of way. -mt-
Posted 18 years ago by mattt    [ Reply ]
miahfost wrote:
Sappy.
Exactly!
Posted 18 years ago by bbHappy    [ Reply ]
hippiechick wrote:
From the choice of songs today, either it's Bill's and Rebecca's anniversary, or they had a fight and he's trying to make up with her!
lol...that made me spit on my screen!
Posted 18 years ago by stratrjb    [ Reply ]
From the choice of songs today, either it's Bill's and Rebecca's anniversary, or they had a fight and he's trying to make up with her!
Posted 18 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
tHIS, wALKING IN mEMPHIS AND sILVER tHUNDERBIRD....AND mARC cOHEN WAS DONE...But he said something in those songs
Posted 18 years ago by Farquwaar    [ Reply ]
Dirktooth wrote:
Schmaltz it may be, but it sounds like honest schmaltz to my ears.
Honesty can't save a bad song...
Posted 18 years ago by Zweiblumen    [ Reply ]
When it all comes down....I'm willing to bet this song lifted a lot of hearts and made for some very pleasant moments. Schmaltz it may be, but it sounds like honest schmaltz to my ears.
Posted 18 years ago by Dirktooth    [ Reply ]
RayRay wrote:
Is this Radio Paradise or a Hallmark commercial?
Its Halladise Radio! HA HA Not a bad song, not something I would want to hear everyday. But it has it place in a large mix.
Posted 18 years ago by kingfish2004    [ Reply ]
Is this Radio Paradise or a Hallmark commercial?
Posted 18 years ago by RayRay    [ Reply ]
Sappy.
Posted 18 years ago by miahfost    [ Reply ]
Nothing wrong with this one!
Posted 18 years ago by Pipes    [ Reply ]
very nice song...
Posted 18 years ago by blackbeauty    [ Reply ]
I still love this one.
Posted 18 years ago by babygirl614    [ Reply ]
Awwww again. That was pretty dang sweet.
Posted 18 years ago by Darrooon    [ Reply ]
AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW, MC is from my hometown, Cleveland Hts, OH
Posted 18 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
aw, bill, you and rebecca are so sweet together! I hope you're having a lovely and lovey valentine's day, and thanks so much for creating radioparadise.com, the best source for the best music on the airwaves!!
Posted 18 years ago by mizgeee    [ Reply ]
What a freakin' beautiful song.
Posted 18 years ago by ploafmaster    [ Reply ]
I was going to get up from my desk, but now I just can't. I so love this song. Thanks Bill and Happy Valentine's Day to you too!
Posted 18 years ago by babygirl614    [ Reply ]
Sorry, Mr. Cohn is like fingernails on slate blackboards for me.
Posted 18 years ago by fizixidiot    [ Reply ]
Let me tell you kids something: When you hand your partner/wife the relevent words of this song on a Birthday Card you have scored some very major points indeed. Thank god for people like Marc Cohn who can put down in words what we only feel, ( hopefully )
Posted 19 years ago by Coppertop    [ Reply ]
classic wrap-around: so bad, it's really quite good. an 8
Posted 19 years ago by 4999thnewuser    [ Reply ]