The song is also referred to as 'Say (What You Need to Say)' as this is the main line from the chorus of the song. The song was also the first 'assignment' song that Mayer had ever written. Lyrics to 'Say What You Need To Say' by John Mayer. Take out of your wasted honor Every little past frustration Take all your so called problems Better put them in quotations. Nowhere To Run Nowhere To Hide What You Doin' To Me All This Jive I Can See It 'Fore The Light Of Day 'Cause Now You're Gonna', Gonna' Do It My Way You Are S. And you say I am helped when I am falling short And when I don't belong, Lord, you say I am yours And I beieve, yes I believe what you say of me Oh I believe Taking all I have now I'm laying at your feet Cuz you have every failure, God, and you have every victory You say I am loved when I cant feel a thing You say I am strong when I think I am.
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems
Better put 'em in quotations
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
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Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you'd be better off instead
If you could only
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much
Than never to say what you need to say
Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as your eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open
Wide
Say what you need to say
(repeated till fade out)
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| 'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song' | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Jim Croce | ||||
| from the album I Got a Name | ||||
| B-side | 'Salon and Saloon' | |||
| Released | March 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Country folk, folk | |||
| Length | 2:33 | |||
| Label | ABC Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Croce | |||
| Producer(s) | Terry Cashman, Tommy West | |||
| Jim Croce singles chronology | ||||
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'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song' is the title of a posthumously released single by the American singer-songwriter Jim Croce. The song was written by Croce and was originally released on his album I Got a Name.
It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at position No. 73 in March 1974.[1] It peaked at No. 9 in April 1974, becoming his fifth and final Top 10 hit.[2] In addition, the song went to No. 1 on the Billboardadult contemporary chart and reached No. 68 on the Billboardcountry music chart, Croce's only song to chart there.[3]
This song is noted for the use of backup singers, as well as a string section, that plays a counterpoint melody during the concluding instrumental.
Background[edit]
Croce was killed in a small-plane crash in September 1973, the same week that a 45RPM single, the title cut from his studio album I Got a Name was released. After the delayed release of a song from his previous album ('Time in a Bottle') in late 1973, 'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song' was chosen as the second single released from his final studio album.
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Filehippo word to pdf converter. Croce wrote the song in early 1973 when he arrived home and got into a disagreement with his wife, Ingrid. Instead of arguing with her, she has stated that Croce 'went downstairs, and he started to play like he always did when he wrote .. the next morning, he came up early in the morning and sang it to me.'[3]
Ingrid Croce wrote an autobiographical cookbook, Thyme in a Bottle, in which she includes interesting anecdotes about Jim. She wrote the following about 'I'll Have To Say 'I Love You' in a Song':
One weekend, after being on the road for many months, Jim got a chance to come home to relax with his family. We settled in to enjoy our time alone together. Though Jim was expecting company the next day, avoiding confrontation he never told me that we were to be joined by an entire film crew! The next morning, 15 people from Acorn Productions descended upon our house to record a promotional film of Jim Croce at Home on the Farm.I prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner for the whole film crew and after the group left, I questioned Jim about our finances. After a year and a half of his working so very hard on the road, we were barely making ends meet, but Jim wouldn't talk about it. He hated questions as much as he hated confrontation, especially about money. He stormed out of our bedroom and went down to the kitchen table to brood. The next morning he woke me gently by singing his new song. 'Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong. So I'll have to say 'I love you' in a song.'[4]
Say What You Need To Say Song
Reception[edit]
Billboard described Croce's vocal performance as 'strong' and also praised the song's production.[5]
Covers[edit]
- Cilla Black covered this song on her 1974 album In My Life.
- Clint Black covered it for his 2007 album The Love Songs.
- Lane Brody covered it on Jim Croce: A Nashville Tribute
- The Ventures covered it on The Ventures Play the Jim Croce Songbook
- Jerry Reed covered it on Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce
- Bonnie Koloc covered it on Bonnie Koloc at Her Best
- Andy Williams covered it on You Lay So Easy on My Mind
- Cleo Laine covered it on Gonna Get Through
- Mary Travers covered it on Circles
- Johnny Lee covered it on Hey Bartender
- The Jay Dyall Project covered it, releasing it in 2012 as an online stand-alone single.
Track listing[edit]
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- 'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song' – 2:30
- 'Salon And Saloon' – 2:30
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^'Billboard Magazine'(PDF). March 2, 1974. Retrieved October 3, 2017.Cite magazine requires
|magazine=(help) - ^Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ abHyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
- ^Songfacts on 'I Have to Say I Love You in a Song', Songfacts.com
- ^'Top Single Picks'(PDF). Billboard. February 23, 1974. p. 56. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
- ^'Jim Croce – I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song / Salon And Saloon'. Discogs. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^'Australian Top 100 Singles – Week ending 04 August 1974'. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^'Top Singles – Volume 21, No. 12, May 11 1974'. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^Dutch Charts – Jim Croce I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
- ^http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qartistid=1470#n_view_location Flavour of New Zealand, August 3, 1974
- ^'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song (song by Jim Croce) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts'. www.musicvf.com. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^'Cash Box Top 100 4/27/74'. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^'The RPM Year-End Charts: 1974'. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^'The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1974'. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
External links[edit]
Say What You Need To Say Song
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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