"You've Got a Friend" is a song from 1971, originally written and performed by Carole King. It was included in her album Tapestry of 1971, but was made famous by James Taylor's cover version the same year. Taylor's rendition, released as a single from his own 1971 album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The James Taylor version also spent one week at the top of the Easy Listening charts. "You've Got a Friend" won Grammy Awards both for Taylor (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) and King (Song of the Year). Joni Mitchell sings harmony.
The song was recorded also during 1971 by Dusty Springfield, a recording that predates Taylor's version. It was recorded for her third album for Atlantic Records, but a dispute with the company meant the album was unreleased. The song was left unissued until 1999, when it was issued as a bonus track for the Rhino Records deluxe re-release of Dusty in Memphis.
Another live version was recorded by Donny Hathaway on his 1972 Live album and the posthumously released These Songs for You, Live!.
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is an actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably the films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House. Lawrence has acted in numerous film roles and starred in his own television series, Martin, which ran from 1992 to 1997.
Lawrence was born in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse in Germany on April 16, 1965, to American parents. He was given his first name after civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and his middle name after US President John F. Kennedy. His father, John Lawrence, served in the US Military. After his parents divorced when he was eight, Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer at the time. His mother, Chlora (née Bailey), began working several jobs to support her family. During his teen years, Lawrence excelled at boxing. He lived in Maryland, and attended Thomas G. Pullen School of Creative and Performing Arts (Landover, Maryland), Fairmont Heights High School (Fairmount Heights, Maryland), Eleanor Roosevelt High School, and also Friendly High School in Fort Washington, Maryland, becoming a Mid-Atlantic Golden Gloves boxing contender.
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, a collaboration with James Taylor, which reached number 4 on the charts in its first week, and has sold over 600,000 copies.
Lisa Frances Martin (born 12 May 1960 in Gawler, South Australia) is a retired female long-distance runner from Australia.
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul the 28-year-old won a silver medal in marathon, only 13 seconds behind Portuguese running star Rosa Mota. Other achievements include gold medals in marathon at the 1986 and 1990 Commonwealth Games. However, Lisa's proudest achievement is the course record she set for the New York City Marathon in 1992, with a time of 2:24:40. This record stood for nine years.
She is divorced from Kenya's runner Yobes Ondieki, with whom she has a daughter.
Benjamin S. Martin (June 27, 1921 – July 24, 2004) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Virginia from 1956 to 1957 and at the United States Air Force Academy from 1958 to 1977, compiling a career college football record of 102–116–10. Martin was a native of Prospect Park, Pennsylvania. He played college football at Princeton University in 1941 and then moved to the United States Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1946. Martin was an assistant football coach at Navy from 1949 to 1954. He died on July 24, 2004 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The beat was sposed to drop right there
The beat was sposed to drop right there
The beat was sposed to drop right there
Yeah yeah yeah... uhh
I send this one out, to my right hand man
or mens, or womens, the whole crew
The real fam
Chorus: KRS-One
We can count the dough or kick a flow
or chill out watchin videos
or actin really silly yo but really doe
all that can end...
Whether at the bar with superstars
or cruisin in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend
Verse One: KRS-One
If we can't have trust then you can't hang with us
We respond to those who show respect with respect
We respond we connect on the same deck
same intellect, my man, never shifty, thinks quickly
If you can't understand, we boys we boys
We could stand on the corner with a hat sellin toys
It ain't about your Benz I hope it ain't about mine
my man, I be dissin in my freestyle rhyme
Gettin G's around the world, I can trust you with my girl
my man, we chillin at the jam, what's the plan?
I'm not a yes man and none of my friends are yes men
or women, I'm drivin, I see my peeps yo get in
Where you fit in? True friends are quick to sit
in the beginning of all trouble, and when your bankroll doubles
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
Still I got my own space like Hubble
Chorus
Verse Two: KRS-One
Cause don't nobody care about us, all they do is doubt us
Until we blow the spot then they all wanna crowd us
and wanna shout us, but you my man from way back
I just gots to say that, actin large I don't play that
But I can't say that, where I play at isn't fast-paced
A friend can acquire the taste to become two-faced
And that's a disgrace there ain't nothing you can say to us
When the kid you grew up with betrays your trust
When we used to ride the bus we had trust
Now we cash checks and drive Lex, and can't show respect to one of us
Yo the heads I hang with ain't tryin to just get
what they can get, sit quickly backstabbin the click
I roll thick, but only some are friends really
down to the end, my right hand men and women
Mutual support, from the beginning
Been in, exactly what I've been in
Chorus
Verse Three: KRS-One
Back to back we attack corporate America
Gettin fees that amount to G's in every area
You my man I ain't gotta drag you along
You pull your own weight, yeah you definitely got it goin on
I don't see nothin wrong wit a little bumpin car system
thumpin, between the crew we always got sump'un
But if we had nuttin no frontin whatever
We'd still be crew you and me, me for you together
Word, fake people ain't worth a turd
They only want to be your friend because of what they overheard
I send this record to the well respected
Friends that I've collected, I hope I am what you expected
Yeah, so check it, so check it
V 1: Some say that friendship should be a life time thing
A time that turns the seasons, builds trust & gives us strength
A friend's a friend forever, untill the end of time
Throught the good & the bad, a friend will be by your side, yeah
CHORUS: If you're looking for a friend
You found a friend in me
Not just for the moment, but throughout eternity
If you're looking for a friend
You can always count on me
And not just for the moment, but throught all eternity
A friend is one who listens, always there for you
A yes when there's a no, a don't when they say do
Someone who'll forgive you, & never turn away
Arms of love that won't let go when you are afraid
CHORUS
BRIDGE: And if the sun don't rise tomorrow
And the world never turns again
My heart will never feel no sorrow
For I know that always the Lord is there
If you're looking for a friend
You found a friend in me
I will be your friend, Till eternity
I've still been searching
And long have I waited
For someone to like me as me
To laugh with
To cry with
To be just beside with
A friend that's who I need
To fight with
Make up with
To know that you need them
Believing that they need you, too
To walk hand in hand with
To argue to talk with
A friend that's who I need
And even though
I make mistakes
And never do anything right
A smile, a hug
Can change all that
And everything will be alright
Someone who shares all my dreams and ambitions
Someone who will love me as me
I need this person
Someone to rely on
A friend that's who I need
A friend, a friend, a friend, a friend
Friend of mine and yours
Out of all the love in the world
No one could love you more
Verse:
Sometimes, there's no one to talk to
No one else I can find
But He's always there
He's everywhere
I'm talkin' bout a friend of mine
Problems seem like they never end
You have no one to turn to
But you can lean on Him
He'll never let you fall and
All you got to do is call Him
He's just a friend
Chorus:
A friend, a friend, a friend, a friend
Friend of mine and yours
Out of all the love in the world
No one could love you more
Verse 2:
It seems so crazy
You see times have changed and
People say they treat you so good
But then they smile in your face and
They talk behind your back
They're not like the friends of old
But I found a friend who's love is true
It won't change no matter what happens
.....He's gonna be right there
And you can depend on Him
(chorus)
And if you ever need a friend
He's always by your side
And He'll never, ever let you down
He's a friend of mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
Yes He is
I've still been searching
And long have I waited
For someone to like me as me
To laugh with, To cry with
To be just beside with
A friend that's who I need
To fight with, Make up with
To know that you need them
Believing that they need you, too
To walk hand in hand with
To argue to talk with
A friend that's who I need
And even though
I make mistakes
And never do anything right
A smile, a hug
Can change all that
And everything will be alright
Someone who'll share
All my dreams and ambitions
Someone who'll love me as me
I need this person
Someone to rely on
A friend that's who I need
A friend is someone
who cares for you
whose there for you
and will never let you down
A friend is someone
who hugs you for no reason
who calls you just to talk
who you can depend on
Friends are people you can trust
who will never lit to you
Friends are things we all need
Without them, you'll feel blue
The only problem that cames with them
is knowing who to pick
because if your friend turns to a foe
they'll break you like a stick
A friend makes you feel rich
when really you are poor
and life teaches us that:
If you have friends, you need no more.
This city doesn't know my name
I'm holding tight on to the place I came from
And if you think that I'll be stuck this way
It sure feels like it, it sure feels like it
I'm dying just to see another face
That looks at things in the exact same way
And I don't want something just to replace
What let go of me
I don't need serious
I don't need no loving'
'Cause honestly I'm petrified just thinking of it
Right now I can't go through that again
I just need a friend
I just need a friend
The night seems to be my enemy
It hold on tight and keeps me wondering
If and when I'll be moving on cause
Recently it's hard to be so strong
I'm not looking for help to forget like some
Eternal sunshine on a spotless sky and
I'd love to love for her to move along but
It's so hard for me
I don't need serious
I don't need no loving'
'Cause honestly I'm petrified just thinking of it
Right now I can't go through that again
I just need a friend
I just need a friend
(Interlude)
I don't need serious
I don't need no loving
'Cause honestly I'm petrified just thinking of it
Right now I can't go through that again
I don't need a serious
I don't need no loving
'Cause honestly I'm petrified just thinking of it
Right now I can't go through that again
I just need a friend
I just need a friend
I just need a friend
I just need a friend
This city doesn't know my name
I'm holding tight onto the place I came from
And if you think that I'll' be stuck this way
Before I was boring myself into school
And there I was spending my time with some fools
Now I'm just looking for, for a friend
And now that it seems you are the only I need
I'm just running away 'round and around
I am here to know that I'm alone
And you that you've always, ever known you inside
Give me everything you want me to hide
Before I was losing myself in a hole