Annie's Song

John Denver

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come, let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come, let me love you
Come love me again

Let me give my life to you
Come, let me love you
Come love me again

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again


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Annie's Song Lyrics as written by John Denver

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  • +3
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    This song, like many others of Denver's, is a masterpiece. My parents were actually married to this song, over 25 years ago, and I've pretty much grown up on Denver's music. It's a shame his life was cut short. He's definitely one of my favorite artists of all time.
    emoguitar131on September 28, 2004   Link
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    To quote John Denver himself, ""Annie's Song" is my most popular song around the world, if not the most famous. It was written after we had been through a particularly difficult time and had come together again, in many ways closer then ever before. We really felt together and much closer from the experiences we'd been through. One day I was skiing, and I'd just finished a run that was totally exhilarating. I skied right down to the lift, got on the chair, and was off and up the mountains again, my thighs burning and still in the process of catching my breath. I looked out at the mountains I love, and the Colorado sky was a blue color you can only see from this altitude-my favorite color, I might add. The deep green of the trees against the white of the snow, the colorful outfits the people were wearing, the sounds if life as it goes over each tower, and birds singing, and laughter, and the smell of the clean, fresh air out there in the wilderness-all those things were going through my mind and it was all beautiful. It filled me completely. “I began thinking about other things that are like that for me, and my first thought was of the woman I had fallen in love with again, and how she filled me so completely. Then I stared thinking of other things-things in nature. And in the ten minutes it takes to go from the bottom of Bell Mountain lift to the top, I had written “Annie’s Song.” I had the melody in my head, and I knew the chords on the guitar. I skied down to the bottom, of the hill, raced home, picked up my guitar, and played it. Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary said sometimes he didn’t feel so much like the writer, but rather the instrument of that which wants to be written. That’s what this felt like to me. “Annie’s Song” is a song for all lovers and, in its deepest sense, a prayer to the love in us all.”
    animaliaon February 12, 2007   Link
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    this song is just, wow..this is like the greatest love song ive ever heard...he describes wat being in love feels like so accurately, ita amazing..john denver will never be forgotten or replaced..he was and still is awesome
    afipunk84on April 10, 2003   Link
  • +1
    General Comment
    John Denvers finest but also Sheffield United's finest - i'm sure fellow Blades fans will agree..."YOU FILL UP MY SENSES.....LIKE A GALLON OF MAGNET"
    Joynseyon August 02, 2007   Link
  • +1
    General Comment
    I adore this song. It is one of the greatest love songs ever written. I know this song was written about his wife, but I can't help but think of all types of love (lovers, friends, children, parents etc) when I hear this song. I noticed someone commented that he sang this song to his child and I can understand why. The lyrics, though noticeably about a lover, continue to remind me of my grandma and a grandparent's love for their grandchild. "Come let me love you, let me give my life to you. Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms." This part, especially the part about "drowning in your laughter," makes me think of a grandparent speaking to their grandchild.
    what_i_thinkon February 13, 2009   Link
  • 0
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    yes this song is definetley one of the best! the second one is my favorite....how pimp are those lyrics??john denver shuld always be commended for this song
    Duffmyster99on June 30, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    one fine song..
    nobody1984on May 27, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    This song, like many others of Denver's, is a masterpiece. My parents were actually married to this song, over 25 years ago, and I've pretty much grown up on Denver's music. It's a shame his life was cut short. He's definitely one of my favorite artists of all time.
    emoguitar131on September 28, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    my mum loved this song, 'cause her name is Annie...
    Mrs. Ton October 19, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    I had never heard of John Denver before until someone put this this song on at the end of a rather mellow party. He told me: Listen to this; it's simply a man and his guitar.. I remember the simple lyrics and the beautiful tune cutting through all the noise and expressing this mans love and devotion in a clearer way than I had ever heard before. I just began to cry outright, there was no stopping it; this was, and still is, one of the most clear and tender lovesongs I have ever heard..
    Coraxon November 17, 2004   Link

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