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Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer of Danish descent. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 30 years.
Lauridsen was born February 27, 1943, in Colfax, Washington, and is of Danish descent on his father's side. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he studied composition with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen at the University of Southern California in the 1960s. He began teaching at USC in 1967 and has been on their faculty ever since.
In 1975 he moved onto Waldron Island, a secluded, forested haven in the San Juan Archipelago off the coast of Washington State, to rebuild a derelict general store for use as his summer residence. His love for nature and silence was perfectly suited for the pristine beauty and unadorned simplicity of this wildness, where, having barged across a fifty-dollar piano at the outset of his sojourn, he composed many of his masterworks over the following decades. With a worldwide following of choral music enthusiasts, he now shares his time between teaching at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, conducting residencies in America and internationally, and composing on the island.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
You must forgive me if I stare
I've never seen a walking talking answered prayer
Honey, it's amazing that you're standing here
I guess God got tired of me bending his ear
Come in and set that suitcase down
It looks like you and I got lost and found
No need to be sorry, don't apologize
You don't need to ask it, just look in my eyes
Sure, I still feel the same
I still keep the flame, I still call your name
My love does endure
Sure, we can try again
Honey, you just move on in
I have always been sure
It was like double deja vu
When you came in I saw me come in too
Come in from the rain, come in from the blue
I've been missing me as much as I've been missing you
Sure, I still feel the same
I still keep the flame, I still call your name
My love does endure
Sure, we can try again
Honey, you just move on in
I have always been sure
As the river's finding it's way to the sea
Sure as this road is winding towards eternity
My heart's the rock of ages about you and me
Sure, I still feel the same
I still keep the flame, I still call your name
My love does endure
Sure, we can try again
Honey you just move on in
I have always been sure
SURE
performed by: Debbie Gibson
written by: Deborah Gibson
Verse 1:
Sure
I was so sure
Until I just
Didn't know any more.
Thought no storm would come
And when it came
I had to run
And I'll never be the same.....
Verse 2:
Tears
They come and go
So often now
When I think of how hard we tried
It's no one's fault
Just like the tide
You never know until it hits you.
Chorus:
I remember days now they're in the past
Bitter sweet days - they went so fast
Try to win them back - it's a losing fight
'Cause we're alone tonight.....
Verse 3:
I swear
I hear you calling
Your voice seems clear
Unlike the situation,
Love.....
Love really hurts
The more you learn
The more you wished you had forgotten
CHORUS
Bridge:
You apologize for being you,
But never justify
The things you do.
What is it I'm asking for
I only want to be sure.....
Verse 4:
So cry
Yourself back to sleep now.
It won't be over though. (pain)
The morning comes
Daylight turns into darkness
As you realize only in dreams
Do dreams come true.
Oh-Ooooo...
I remember days....
Ooooo-Oooooo
'Cause we're alone tonight
You apologize for being you.
But never justify
The things you do.
What is it I'm asking for
I only want to be,
All I wanna be,
God all I ask of you is to be sure.....
Verse 5:
.....'Cause I was so sure
Until I just didn't know any more.
Thought no storm would come
And when it came
I had to run
And I'll never be the same.....
Sure.....
'Cause I was so sure
I'm sitting here waiting for my lover
Last time we met I wasn't to sure
Now I'm hoping, maybe dreaming, for a life as one
When she reads this I'm hoping she'll call
But I need much more than before
I need positive reactions whenever I'm down
Cause I'm sure so sure
That it's heaven knocking on my door
Sure so sure so baby come on inside
Need you so much more and more each time we touch
Sure so sure that it's sweet love I found
It isn't a game so don't play hard to get
(Tired of running after you)
There's no connections holding us down (down)
Isn't it a shame it never happened
though still here we are the second time round
It's gotta be social, compatible, sexual, irresistible
It's gotta be right for love
Sure so sure
That it's heaven knocking on my door
Sure so sure so baby come on inside
Need you so much more and more each time we touch
Sure so sure that it's sweet love I found
Holdin', squeezin', touchin', teasin'
Wantin', wishin', waitin', teasin'
Of you love, yeah yeah
Blindin', groovin', feel it, move it
Findin', breathin', bracin', breedin'
With you girl
It's gotta be social, compatible, sexual, irresistible
It's gotta be right for love
Cause I'm sure so sure
That it's heaven knocking on my door
Sure so sure so baby come on inside
Need you so much more and more each time we touch