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You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
if it feels nice, don't think twice
Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will
You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you're all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.
Better to shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
You'll feel better right away
Don't take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love
Song Info
Submitted by
oofus On May 16, 2001
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life is too short to be an asshole.
so, for fuck's sake, be nice!
why is there only one comment for this amazing song?
great message, its alot deeper than this but its basically: you'll never be hurt if you don't show how much you truely care for the people in your life, or the ones you want in your life. but at the same time you'll never know if you could've loved them better, or loved them at all... personally i can relate to that message...
yes, why just a few entries? =) (perhaps it's just that james taylor belong to a different generation.. but i'm glad that i discovered it, along with leonard cohen.)
i was introduced to this song by a terrific folk singer here - noel cabangon and the plaintive words struck me. I usually have a hard time memorizing lyrics but i got this in just a few listenings...
well said on the comments above...
I love James Taylor. One of his best songs, with a great message to gowith it. After listening to this I feel like doing just what the song says. Shower the people...............
I love James Taylor. One of his best songs, with a great message to gowith it. After listening to this I feel like doing just what the song says. Shower the people...............
I love all his songs it's his voice it's so soothing love it!It should put any body in a bad mood in a better one.
Although it could apply to anyone, I tend to believe that the reference early on of "Father and Mother, Sister and Brother" leans this song to having been written with family in mind. Nearly all of us, and especially those of us getting on in age experience riffs and disagreements with our family members that never get repaired, mostly because we "stand there with our foolish pride". This song says to me to never miss an opportunity to rain love onto my family members and if there are any "squeaky wheels" to rain even more down on them. Then I will feel those bad feelings "beginning to ease". A great song, by a great artist.