When I am with you any dream that I may dream comes true
Any star in the sky I can buy with a sigh when I am with you
Whenever we meet, whatever the sweet occasion
Where angels won抰 go, I go with no persuasion.
I am everything I ever wished I could be and more
So it抯 not just for what you are yourself that I love you as I do
But for what I am when I am with you.
(Instrumental interlude and pick up at *.)
When I am with you I am nothing I was before
I am everything I ever wished I could be and more
So it抯 not just for what you are yourself that I love you as I do
But for what I am when I am with you.
For me, this goes back to 1966 when I had the "Greatest Hits" album. This song was extra special as I had just met the love of my life---my husband of 47 years!
As always- beautiful selection and while challenging as you say to 'frame perfection' you have done wonderful justice in bringing this song to life. Thank you!
Thanks much for posting this Mathis song. When I was stationed on Okinawa in 1967, I had a phonograph in my room with every Mathis album in existence. For the 13 months I was on that god-forsaken island, I listened to every song on those albums probably 300 or 400 times. I learned all the songs by heart. Whenever I hear Johnny's oldies, fond memories return of laying in my bunk after a hard days work and chilling out to his marvelous voice and the unbelievably beautiful songs he chose to sing.
There has been nobody like him since he came on the scene, and there probably will never be, since singing ability is no longer necessary in order to call yourself a singer nowadays. Any foolishness will pass for singing. He truly was the very best of the best.
Of all of Johnny Mathis musical magic, This is truly "the" Love Song that only a couple that has experienced a shared love with a soul mate that would understand.The depth of the words of feeling, "I am everything I ever wish I could and more, .......but for what I am with you!"
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My loving husband passed away in 1989, but thanks to Johnny Mathis, this beautiful song and words which he sang for me, and my husband and so many of Johnny's romantic love songs will go on and on, forever. We were so lucky to have enjoyed songs sung by someone who was so gifted to be able to reach out and touch, those of us who could relate to his every word.