Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Wa, close to you
Wa, close to you
Ha, close to you
La, close to you


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(They Long To Be) Close To You Lyrics as written by Hal David Burt Bacharach

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    Here's a thought. The singer is a mother singing to her son. I sing this to my baby boy and it is his favorite lullaby. It's oh-so-sweet and describes a mother's love perfectly. It even gets me teary-eyed. Thought that might add a new perspective for everyone.

    cwallyon March 26, 2014   Link
  • +2
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    Bacharach and David. If a guy sang this song? Stalker!!!! Girl sings it, song about unrequited love. Quite genius.

    Guitarearlon September 03, 2011   Link
  • +1
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    Oh my dear, no one puts the Carpenters to shame.

    That familiar clinking of the piano at the beginning will always make me smile. =)

    nackteziegeon January 03, 2007   Link
  • +1
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    This song means so much to me. It was the last song they played at my sister's funeral when i was very young and to me the song is more about someone who is almost god given hence the "angel's got together" and has been taken away from you hence why you want to be "close to" it. She was a popular and fun-loving girl and that's why "all the girls in town" followed her "all around." That's what I think it means anyway...and it always brings me to tears. Always imagined it was a song about a girl.

    DC4SLon May 06, 2008   Link
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    I can relate to this song, because I'm in love with a boy who has moondust in his hair of gold and starlight in his eyes of blue... ^_^

    alternaindieon April 20, 2009   Link
  • +1
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    I heard this song in Mirror Mask and fell in love.

    any1no1on August 03, 2009   Link
  • +1
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    my wife would sing this song to me when we first got together and I loved it.I don't think she knows how much. once in a while she'll think of it and that's cool.Love you Leta

    dooglepopon May 09, 2011   Link
  • +1
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    The greatest love-song ever written? Yes...yes it is...

    bernlin2000on March 30, 2014   Link
  • 0
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    This is one of those songs that is so sweet and pretty, yet is also so corny that only the brave few will admit to liking it.

    What a guy, he inspires this chickie to think he's got some participation mystique AND the magic mojo working on the whole of nature and humanity. Who knows? Maybe he does. Could be she's singing about Merlin the Magician. She's a groupie of his, yeah. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

    ToroTrashon August 30, 2002   Link
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    Can you imagine being followed around by an entire TOWN full of women? Talk about impractical!

    groupingon September 26, 2002   Link

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