Yvonne Elliman

Can't Find My Way Home

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Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.

Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time, oh Lord
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.

Come down on your own and leave your money in home.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason, I've been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.

Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time, oh Lord
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.

But I can't find my way home
And I ain't done nothing wrong
Still I can't find my way home
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

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I'm asking Lord, my sweet-sweet Lord, I get down on my knees,
and I beg

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musik2412 On Sep 04, 2008

If I can't have you

Everything's Alright

I Can't Explain

If I Can't Have You [From Saturday Night Fever]

Best of My Love

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by fyschee

9y ago

Yvonne does one of the finest versions of this song. Actually she did two versions, both included on her greatest hits cd. The second version is the best. I have always thought that if she hadn't had such success with "If I can't have you," which made her synonymous with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and overshadowed everything else she ever did including her fine performance as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, that she would have been in the same league as other top female performers of her era like Stevie Nicks, Heart, etc. She did several excellent albums before hitting big with that song. Her first self titled album, and "Food Of Love", which included her great version of "I can't explain. She wasn't a songwriter but sang every song as if she had written it herself, with her beautiful smooth as molasses voice.

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