I don’t know what it is but lately this Aretha Franklin song has been stuck in my head for two weeks. I love the lyrics but it is the music, the beat, the rhythm that I think I am most in love with. I’m curious as to whether anybody has done a jazz instrumental version of this song. I need to look that up.
Check out this version with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as the backing musicians.
Lyrics:
Though you don’t call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I’ll rap on your door (your door)
Tap on your windowpane (tap on your windowpane)
I want to tell you, baby
Changes I’ve been going through
Missing you, listen you’Til you come back to me, that’s what I’m gonna do
Why did you have to decide
You had to set me free?
I’m going to swallow my pride (my pride)
I’m gonna beg you to please
Baby, please see me (baby won’t you see me?)
I’m going to walk by myself
Just to prove that my love is true
All for you baby’Til you come back to me, that’s what I’m gonna do
Living for you, my dear
Is like living in a world of constant fear
Hear my plea (hear my plea)
I’ve got to make you see (got to make you see)
That our love is dying (our love is dying)
Although your phone you ignore
Somehow I must, somehow I must, how I must explain
I’m going to rap on your door (your door)
Tap on your windowpane (tap on your windowpane)
I’m going to camp by your steps
Until I get through to you
I’ve got to change your view, baby’Til you come back to me, that’s what I’m gonna do
‘Til you come back to me, that’s what I’m gonna do
‘Til you come back to me, that’s what I’m gonna do
I ‘m going to rap on your door (tap on)
Tap on your windowpane
Open out baby, I’m gonna rap on your door (tap on)
Tap on your, tap on your (tap on)
Tap on your, tap on your windowpane (tap on your windowpane)
I’m going to rap on your door (rap on it)
Tap on your windowpane
Open out baby
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