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A powerful ballad, from acoustic guitar to full orchestration. Remixed and mastered November, 2003. #1 on Acoustic/Folk (whole genre) November, 2003.
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Kansas songwriter Steve Cowell presents his unique styles of pop/rock music and intelligent lyrics.
Hi, I'm Steve Cowell. I'm the leader of the group and I write all the words and music. I also play all the instruments and sing everything, which gets lonely at times, but at least there are few ego clashes and I get along pretty well with the other guys in the band most of the time. We all grew up together and have been playing music together since childhood.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #255
Peak in subgenre #83
Author
Steve Cowell
Rights
2002 by Steve Cowell
Uploaded
May 09, 2009
Track Files
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MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:39
Story behind the song
I wrote this song as a prelude to my proposal to my wife. One night after spending another wonderful day together, I was trying to watch TV, but these words kept running through my head and seemed to fall into verse form spontaneously. During the TV commercials, I'd write some of them down on the computer, and after awhile I had the basic lyric written, so I stayed up all night writing the song and finished the basics in presentable form by morning. I polished the lyrics up over the next couple days and sent them to her by email. I sang it to her the next week and then proposed, she accepted emotionally, and we eloped a couple weeks later! Ahhh, the power of song!
Lyrics
UNTIL YOU
Copyright 2001 by Steve Cowell

There's a place in my heart that I never knew
Until you showed the same place in yours
There were feelings inside me I would not concede
Until you gave me some of the words
And my breath comes up short when you touch my hand
And I'm only beginning to half understand
How I owe you my life in so many ways
And my time is too short to ever repay

There was pain in my life I could not release
Until you freed me from my old fears
There was withering heartache and all kinds of grief
Until you helped me shed all my tears
And you came just in time to save my poor soul
From the Hell of despair that had swallowed me whole
And the demons of doubt that tortured my mind
Have been driven away and left far behind

And I can't understand where you've been all this time
Cause it seems like I've known you for all of my life
Like I loved you in childhood, and we had lost touch
And we've long been apart but were always in love

I was shrouded in darkness with no will to live
Until you brought the light of the day
I had given up hope I would find love again
Until you came and showed me the way
And I still can't believe you could do this to me
Is it some kind of magical spell that you weave?
Do you feel anything the way I do for you?
Don't answer me now; I know that you do
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