I’m Still in Love with You Lyrics
Spending my day thinking 'bout you, girl
Being here with you, being near with you
I can't explain myself
Why I feel like I do (Like I do)
Though it hurt me so to let you know
That I look in your eyes
To let me know how you feel
Let me know that love is really real
Well, it seems to me
That I'm wrapped up in your love
[Chorus]
Don't you know that I'm still in love?
(Still in love, in love with you)
Sho' 'nuff in love with you, yeah, hey
Heaven knows that I'm still in love
(Still in love, in love with you)
Sho' 'nuff in love with you, hey
[Verse 2]
Hey, when I look in your eyes
Through all the years I see (I see)
Me lovin' you and you lovin' me
Well, it seems to me
That I'm wrapped up in your love
Don't you know that I'm still in love?
(Still in love, in love with you)
Sho'nuff in love with you
Hey, ah-ha, ah-ah-ah, ah-ha
Ah-ha
Don't you know that I'm still in love?
(Still in love, in love with you)
Sho' 'nuff in love with you
[Outro]
Hey, I'll try it if you want me to
(Still in love, in love with you)
Ah-ha, ah-ha, ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ha
Ah-ha
About
“I’m Still in Love with You” opens the album with one of Green’s more extraordinary vocals. The line, “I’m … wrapped up in your love,” delivered twice, is sung high, almost disappearing at the end of his range, and yet enveloping — the perfect vocal equivalent of being hugged tightly in someone’s arms. He stretches the word “heaven” and it shimmers or he dips his voice down low at the end of a line as if to insinuate it into every possible corner of the song. As with most Al Green songs (this one written in collaboration with drummer Al Jackson and producer Willie Mitchell), the lyrics are simple, almost unremarkable and in this case touchingly inarticulate: “Spending my days/thinkin' ‘bout you girl./Being here with you/being near with you/Can’t explain myself.” Throughout, Willie Mitchell’s production work is as consistently strong as Green’s vocals. It’s never trite, never obtrusive — none of those wedges of unrelieved production (something quite different from music) you find driven into so many other albums — and always several steps ahead of being just right. Mitchell provides a texture in his production that is the perfect complement to Green’s singing while establishing its own richness but avoids calling attention to itself with those hey-hey-aren’t-I-hot touches so many big-time producers love to indulge themselves with.
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