Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
Oh my babe
Oh my love
Early was the morn
Flowers filled with dew
I became somebody through lovin' you
Softly as a child
Born in natural rain
I predict the seasons to go unchanged
Sometimes in life
You run across a love unknown
Without a reason
It seems like you belong
Hold on dear life
Don't go off running from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
Warm was the sun
That covered my body so
Reminding me of you
As I first known
Those were the days
The days that changed my life
And made me new
I became somebody through loving you
Sometimes in life
You run across a love unknown
Without a reason
It seems like you belong
Hold on dear life
Don't go off running from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
As the sun shines
Down on me
I know with you in love is
Where I wanna be
Oh sometimes
I go on through life
Thinking love is something that is not meant for me
Whoa
Somebody somebody
Hold on dear life
Don't go off runnin' from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
I became somebody through loving you
I became somebody through loving you
Oh my love
Early was the morn
Flowers filled with dew
I became somebody through lovin' you
Softly as a child
Born in natural rain
I predict the seasons to go unchanged
Sometimes in life
You run across a love unknown
Without a reason
It seems like you belong
Hold on dear life
Don't go off running from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
Warm was the sun
That covered my body so
Reminding me of you
As I first known
Those were the days
The days that changed my life
And made me new
I became somebody through loving you
Sometimes in life
You run across a love unknown
Without a reason
It seems like you belong
Hold on dear life
Don't go off running from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
As the sun shines
Down on me
I know with you in love is
Where I wanna be
Oh sometimes
I go on through life
Thinking love is something that is not meant for me
Whoa
Somebody somebody
Hold on dear life
Don't go off runnin' from what's new
I became somebody through loving you
I became somebody through loving you
I became somebody through loving you
Lyrics submitted by chocolate chip eyes
Dear Life Lyrics as written by Anthony Cornelius N Hamilton Junod Etienne
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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this song is about growing when you're with someone.. not only growing in the relationship, but growing as a person. great song..
Whatttt?! There's been only one comment on this song? This is by far my favorite song of all time. Its lead the way of how i feel and how i view relationships with many of the people around me.
Anthony Hamilton's soothing, wondeful voice does every syllabal of these lyrics justice. It gives me goosebumps everytime.
I always like to view these lyrics as a person who came to grow up by someone's side. How they "became somebody" when they were "soft as a child, born..." because through growing up with this person through a young age, they began to mold and develop the person they became.
Without reason, or meaning, a person can effect you in a way so drastic, that you know what your life is intended to be like. Your life can do a complete 180, if you find that one person. That one love.
i think its just about a new love. how some people are afraid and end up running from new feelings, emotions.
its beautiful.
It is a beautiful song that resonates with me as a parent. I hear a parent speaking to a child - telling a son or daughter not to be afraid of something new - presumably a new relationship. Maybe this is a father speaking to his daughter on the morning of her wedding. Or maybe it's a mother who son has just told her he thinks he's in love for the first time - he may have found "the one" but he doesn't know if he's ready.
The parent calling the child "Dear Life" is telling him or her not to worry - I know its different and scary, but don' t go off running from what's new. After all, I became somebody through loving you. No matter who you are, no matter what you have accomplished or what you have done wrong, you are nobody until you love somebody completely and until you have been loved. Parenting does that to you - it makes you "somebody" to "someone."
In the song, the parent reminisces about what it was like when the child was first born - how miraculous and special it was. "Those were the days, the days that changed my life and made me new."
Of course, it could also be about any loving relationship - between two people or between a person and God. For me it's parents and children, but the main point is that true, deep love changes us forever and makes us new creatures - something we never thought about becoming.