Imagine someone writing this for you, maybe you’re in an empty theater after the crowds have left, the roadies gone, just this singer alone on the stage, he runs through the piano keys, maybe stalling, maybe working up the courage to tell you what he can no longer hold back.
And then you hear it, admitting his past mistakes, begging you to see through his fame, see through the images he wraps around himself, see him as he is. He’s telling you that it is only you, you are the one who matters, you are the one he wants and needs.
You hear it in his voice, you see it in his face, he is alone, giving himself to you. And how could you resist, how could you walk away.
Leon Russell wrote this thinking maybe Frank Sinatra or Ray Charles could make a hit of it and indeed, Ray Charles won a Grammy for it in 1994, but this is Leon Russell’s song and you can tell why he earned the admiration of so many other arts.
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