Let 39;s Stay Together By Al Green Mp3 Download
Shelli Frisby
"Let's Stay Together" is a proposal from one adult to another -- this is not a besotted teenager amped up on hormones and playing Romeo. The singer and his lady have been together for some time, and he's telling her, very calmly and logically, that this relationship just feels right. He thinks they should stick with it -- forever. In the unknowable future, times may be good or bad, happy or sad, but whatever the case, he knows he'll want her by his side. He even addresses, in an indirect way, the possibility of splitting up -- so many people break up, then turn around and make up. Who needs that drama? Let's not do that, the singer is saying, let's stay together.
Everything finally came together on the title track for the LP. But it took them "100 and some hours to put the song on tape," Mitchell told NPR in 2000, "because Al was saying, 'What do you want, man?' I said, 'Well, I want you.'"
"I'm not learned in sound, but I know that we got some magic going," Green told The New Yorker. "Like on 'Ayyyyyyyyye, I'm so in loooove with yooouuuuu.' I sing like that, in his studio on that mic, and Willie tells me, 'Now, that's what Al Green sounds like. Damn.' 'Let's, let's stay together. Lovin' you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad.' Now, that's Al Green."
I'm, I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
It's alright with me
'Cause you make me feel so brand new
And I want to spend my life with you
Ain't the same since, baby
Since we've been together
Ooh, loving you forever
Is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
I'll never be untrue
Why somebody, why people want break up?
Oh, turn around and make up
I just can't see
You'd never do that to me (would you, baby?)
So being around you is all I see
Is what I want us to
Let's, we ought to stay together
Loving you whether
Whether times are good or bad
And I'm happy or sad
You know, if it's not current, it stays in your heart. It's like in the background. No matter what I sing or stuff, I still hear it. Yeah, it's in my heart, but it's in the background. I can feel, hear the melody of it.
The tune's refrain underscores a theme of Obama's re-election campaign: "Let's, let's stay together. Loving you whether, whether. Times are good or bad, happy or sad." (The president did not sing this part, however.)
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