I can'T
...stoP l-oooO-Oooo-ving you...
I can't stop loving you
So I've made up my mind
To live in memory
Of such an old lonesome time
I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday.
Those happy hours
That we once knew
Though long ago,
They still make me blue
They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we've been apart
Don Gibson & The Jordanaires -I Can't Stop Loving You (1963). Or Ray Charles - better rendering than the original singer, in my humble opinion; perhaps also cause that was the only version I kept on hearing growing up in Japan, so I was more used to Ray Charles singing than Don Gib...
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Submitted by gscana on January 20, 2023
Modified on March 23, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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