I Gave My Love a Candle - Bonnie Raitt

Got a surprise from my honey Got a message from my girl When she picked up a pen from beside her bed And wrote me a scribbled note Said she'd be coming back to see me That she would be visiting real soon Gon' get up from her long white bed And leave this cold white room We would once more live together Go out on a loving spree Just like before the accident My baby would look at me I saw the sweet face trembling As she tried to open her eyes I jumped with the joy of a grateful boy The day my baby gave me a surprise Got a surprise from my honey Got a message from my girl When she picked up a pen from beside her bed And wrote me a scribbled note I saw her sweet face trembling As she tried to open her eyes I jumped with the joy of a grateful boy The day my baby gave me a surprise

If I gave you my heart If I gave you my soul Could I finally be free? Could I finally be whole? I want to love again I want to find my way home Are you the miracle? Are you the one I've been waiting for? I'm going up I'm going up Yeah, I'm going up You are like the silver lining Lighting up the sky so brightly Love is breaking through the clouds and it's beautiful So beautiful God, I give You my heart God, I give You control I can finally be me I can finally let go I'm going to love again I'm going to find my way home You are the miracle You are the One I've been waiting for I'm going up I'm going up Yeah, I'm going up You are like the silver lining Lighting up the sky so brightly Love is breaking through the clouds and it's beautiful So beautiful I've been looking for You for my whole life In the darkness in the midnight In the hard fight You were right there You were holding my heart, oh I've been looking for You for my whole life In the darkness in the midnight In the hard fight You were right there You were holding my heart, oh You are like the silver lining Lighting up the sky so brightly Love is breaking through the clouds and it's beautiful Yeah, it's beautiful You're so beautiful

What'd you forget? Got a light? I know you, you're- You're shivering It's nothing, they turned off my heat And I'm just a little weak on my feet Would you light my candle? What are you staring at? Nothing Your hair in the moonlight You look familiar Can you make it? Just haven't eaten much today At least the room stopped spinning, anyway What? Nothing Your smile reminded me of- I always remind people of Who is she? She died Her name was April It's out again Sorry 'bout your friend Would you light my candle? Well Yeah? Ow! Oh, the wax It's- Dripping! I like it between my- Fingers! I figured Oh, well Goodnight It blew out again? No, I think that I dropped my stash I know I've seen you out and about When I used to go out Your candle's out I'm illin' I had it when I walked in the door It was pure Is it on the floor? The floor? They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street Is it true? What? You're staring again Oh, no I mean, you do have a nice- I mean- You look familiar Like your dead girlfriend? Only when you smile, but I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club? That's where I work, I dance Yes! They used to tie you up It's a living I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs We could light the candle Oh, won't you light the candle? Why don't you forget that stuff? You look like you're sixteen I'm nineteen But I'm old for my age I'm just born to be bad I once was born to be bad I used to shiver like that I have no heat, I told you I used to sweat I got a cold Uh-huh I used to be a junkie But now and then I like to Uh huh Feel good Oh, here! What's that? Oh, it's a candy bar wrapper We could light the candle Oh, what'd you do with my candle? That was my last match Our eyes'll adjust, thank God for the moon Maybe it's not the moon at all I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street Bah humbug Bah humbug Cold hands Yours too Big Like my father's Do you wanna dance? With you? No With my father I'm Roger They call me They call me Mimi

Yeah baby, I've been drinking, And I shouldn't come by I know But I found myself in trouble darling, And I had no place else to go Got some whiskey from a bar man, Got some cocaine from a friend I just had to keep on moving, Till I was back in your arms again ---- Well I'm guilty, yeah I'm guilty, I'll be guilty for the rest of my life How come I never do, What I'm supposed to do Nothing that I try to do ever turns out right ---- Well you know how it is with me baby, You know I just can't stand myself It takes a whole lot of medicine, For me to pretend to be somebody else.

Nobody else could make me happy No one could hurt me like you do You were the only one that mattered Then you were gone, love had moved on Left me alone thinking of You, there was never any other You, and I were created to be true Isn't it love that keeps us breathing Isn't it love we're sent here for Wasn't that love that we were feeling (That was something baby) Deep in our soul, deeper than we know Keeping me holding out for You, there was never any question You'll be forever on my mind You and I, we were meant to be together True hearts in a world where love is dyin' And I might as well have been dyin' when We were apart When you came back I felt the beating of my heart You, there was never any question You'll be forever on my mind You and I, we were meant to be together You, and only you It was you, only you You, always you

As I walk along I wonder what went wrong With our love a love that was so strong And as I still walk on I think of the things We've done together while our hearts were young I'm a walking in the rain to the bone I feel the pain Wishing you were here by me to end this misery And I wonder I w-w-wonder why you ran away And I wonder if you will stay my little runaway my runaway I'm a walking in the rain to the bone I feel the pain Wishing you were here by me to end this misery And I wonder I w-w-wonder baby yeah you know why you ran away And I wonder if you will stay my little runaway my little runaway Come back baby (Run, run, runaway) You left me standing in the rain (Run, run, runaway) Come back baby (Run, run, runaway) Standing in the rain (Run, run, runaway)