CARRY ME AWAY
(words and music by Rick Springfield)
Stop, my head is
playing tricks again, won't it ever stop
Baby, help me listen to my heart and then take me to the top
I'm afraid of love, so afraid of love
And I'm scared to make it right
But I know tonight, that it's my last chance
My last shot at real love and I wanna take it
Last chance at the slow dance, in the big time
And I wanna make it
Tonight you're gonna show me what love is and why
Between the sweat and lovin'
The whisper and the cry
I'm so tired of all this shit that I feel
Show me something real
Carry Me Away, baby, Carry Me Away
I'm in love with you tonight, it feels so right
Carry Me Away, come on, Carry Me Away
I wanna be with you, what can I do
You've got the power, you've got the love
To take me to heaven or to lead me to heartbreak
I spend my life waiting for the future and living in the past
Baby, show me love that I can hold on to
Give me something that'll last
I'm a total wreck but I'm up to my neck in this love I'm in and I can't do a thing
It's a long shot, a far cry, from a real world, me and you, baby
Last chance at the slow dance in the bright lights
And I think that maybe tonight it's gonna happen no need in tryin'
Between the sweat and lovin', the whisper and the crying I'm so scared of all
this feeling I feel
Show me something real
Carry Me Away, baby, Carry Me Away
I'm in love with you tonight, it feels so right
Carry Me Away, come on, Carry Me Away
I wanna be with you, what can I do
You've got the power, you've got the love
To take me to heaven or to lead me to heartbreak
You've got the power, you've got the love
To take me to heaven or to lead me to heartbreak
Carry Me Away, baby, Carry Me Away
I'm in love with you tonight, it feels so right
Carry me away, come on, Carry Me Away
I wanna be with you, what can I do
You've got the power- you've got the love
To take me to heaven or to lead me to heartbreak
(total playing time: 3:01)
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With this one, more insecurity, same vibe as Love is Alright Tonite, but in this one,
there is not that little bit of confidence of feeling he has some bit of control in what
is going on in his life.
This one almost has a little more of a, for lack of a better term, desperate tone to it.
Kind of that burned too many times feel, but still searching for that happiness knowing he
might get more of the same.
I love it when Rick's a Mr. Potty mouth, so it
goes without saying what my favorite line in this song is.
I'm thinking maybe at this point, he was a little sick of the whole Hollywood thing and
was longing for something normal and real. The "living in the past" was
possibly the taste of success that he had and lost and was hoping for again.
I feel much better that I got all the words
right in the lyrics of this song! This is another rockin' song by the lyric-meister. I
think my favorite performance of this one is on Live & Kickin'.
The strongest memory I have from this song back when I bought the album was listening to
it in my room on my record player that looked like a suitcase when it was closed up. I
would just sit there and sing along, and when it came to Carry Me Away, I would get up and
close the door because I didn't want my parents to hear the s- word! LOL. I've said it
before, they always thought Rick was a nice clean cut pop idol, and although I knew better
just after the first listen of this album, who was I to tell them differently? (I think my
mother has figured it out by now though, LOL)
My favorite part of this song is when he sings the words between the sweat and lovin' and
the whisper and the cry. That line used to give me chills at thirteen. I'm not even going
to elaborate on what it does to me now, in my thirties!
When I was a teenager, I interpreted this song as Rick saying he wanted to, uh, well you
know with the girl he was in love with because he was saying you've got the power, you've
got the love to take me to heaven or to lead me to heartbreak. I can see he was saying so
much more now, this whole song to me is a metaphor of the music business. He's telling the
music business, here I am. This is me, what I love. I'm giving it my all, let it carry me
away into stardom. Rick is just so good at this songwriting thing, you know? All the
romance references kind of throw you, but I really think that this is what he was trying
to say, and he was just saying it a way (I love the girl style) to make it more
interesting to the listener.
SONG FACTS:
Rick performed this song during Live and
Kickin' and now performs it as part of a Medley at some of his concerts.
It appears on the following releases:
Working Class Dog, Alive-Greatest Hits (as part of a Medley), Legendary, and
Anthology (written in rock) |
