#5.... Love Changes Everything

  • Performed by Climie Fisher
  • Written by Simon Climie, Rob Fisher and Dennis Morgan
  • Running time 4:27
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    When a song can make me cry, it's a winner. But when a song makes me cry because it hits too close to home, it belongs in the top 10.

    Climie Fisher's tale of the discovery of love, "Love Changes Everything", struck a huge nerve with me when I heard it some time after losing my first love, Terry. It seemed like they were there watching the whole thing unravel, from the line that goes "I was only foolin round, but she stole my heart away" to the line that gives me genuine chills: "I wondered was I destined to spend my life alone". Before Terry, I didn't think much of being in love, but then I realized it was true: Love DOES change everything.

    The Lyrics

    I was only 17 when she looked at me that way
Seems like yesterday
I was only foolin' round but she stole my heart away
I've never been the same
I felt the strangest feeling, like a raging fire burned
She left, I cried for weeks
And I can't forget her, or the lesson that I learned:

Chorus:
Love changes, changes everything
Love makes you fly and can break your wings
Love changes, changes everything
Love makes the rules, and fools to kings
Love changes everything

And the years went rollin' by, I grew up and moved away
Had to earn my pay
Found another lover then, but my heart, sad to say,
It only ended up the same way
I wondered was I destined to spend my life alone?
Oh girl, you answered my question
This time it's working, giving me the hope

Chorus

I've seen the way love shakes ya, makes ya, breaks ya,
It's got a power all its own

Chorus
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