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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She rose to prominence after the release of the first single taken from her eponymous debut album in 1990, "Vision of Love". More than two decades later, Rolling Stone defined the song as an influence on "virtually every other female R&B singer since the nineties". Mariah Carey produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbia's highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with "One Sweet Day", which remains the longest-running number-one song in US chart history. Following a contemptuous divorce from Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and traversed towards R&B with the release of Butterfly (1997). In 1998, she was honored as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards and subsequently named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000.
Say what you want
If I'm not there
You know it hurts
You can't save me now
Please tell me this world isn't real
I can't make it without you
Forced to struggle on my own
To make my life easy
CHORUS:
carry me when the sea wind dies
hold me when the fire goes out
make the earth stay stable for me
tell the rough waters to stop beating me
can you be there when I need you most?
Can you make the rain fall up instead?
Will you show me that you love me?
Will you want me when I feel ashamed?
CHORUS
'cause I need you when I need you
and I don't know how or why
but I would give all the world
for you to just be there
CHORUS
and I would give all the world