♫♫IF THIS IS LOVE BY MELISSA MANCHESTER♫♫

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IF THIS IS LOVE BY MELISSA MANCHESTER Guess I'm just afraid I'm not the kind who makes it last forever And in my selfish way I think I'm clever Until you cry Do you wanna leave? You can let it go because you're strong But one day without your love seemed so long And I sigh, how I sigh If this is love, darling Now's the time to wake up Hurting words can't really shake up someone's life If this is love, darling It's time to stop pretending We'll never have a happy ending while we cry Isn't it a shame How one excuse still leads into another After all this time we hurt each other? Isn't it a shame? Time to make a change Time to find the things we both believe in Talk about the staying, not the leaving If this is love, darling Now's the time to wake up Hurting words can't really shake up someone's life If this is love, darling It's time to stop pretending We'll never have a happy ending while we cry If this is love, darling Now's the time to wake up Hurting words can't really shake up someone's life If this is love, darling It's time to stop pretending We'll never have a happy ending while we cry Melissa Manchester - Biography Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s she has recorded a series of albums featuring her own compositions and those of a variety of other songwriters, generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films and on stage. Biography Manchester was born in the Bronx area of New York City, New York to a musical family of Jewish descent. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, learning the piano and harpsichord at the Manhattan School of Music and Arts, singing commercial jingles at age 15, and becoming a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She studied songwriting at New York University with Paul Simon. Manchester then appeared on the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Bette Midler and Barry Manilow, who took her on as one of the Harlettes in 1971. Her debut album, Home to Myself, was released in 1973; Manchester co-wrote many of its songs with Carole Bayer Sager. Two years later Manchester's album Melissa produced her first top ten hit, "Midnight Blue", which peaked at #6 on the Billboard charts. Manchester collaborated with Kenny Loggins to co-write Loggins' 1978 hit duet with Stevie Nicks, "Whenever I Call You Friend". She would later record this herself for her 1979 Melissa Manchester album. At this time, she guest-starred on the CBS-TV daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow to teach a main character, who was a singer-songwriter, the essentials of the craft. In 1979 Manchester made #10 with her version of Peter Allen's "Don't Cry Out Loud", for which she received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance.In the Friends episode titled "The One With All the Jealousy", Chandler advises Ross to "keep it inside. Learn how to hide your feelings! ... Don't cry out loud", a reference to the song. In 1979 she performed two nominated songs on the Academy Awards show, "The Promise", and "Through The Eyes of Love" (theme song from Ice Castles). The winning song that year was "And So It Goes," from Norma Rae. Two years later she had her biggest hit, "You Should Hear How She Talks About You," which won a Grammy for Best Female Vocal Performance and peaked at #5 on the Billboard charts. It was her last Top 40 Pop hit, but Manchester continued to place singles on the Adult Contemporary charts during the 1980s. Her last top 10 entry on the AC chart was a 1989 updating of Dionne Warwick's "Walk on By". The single was pulled from album "Tribute," which honored some of the singers that influenced her style. In spring 2004, Manchester returned with her first album in 10 years: When I Look Down That Road. While touring to support the CD, Manchester was praised for her still "powerful voice" and for "reinventing while staying true to what made popular." She played herself on a two-day guest appearance on the ABC-TV daytime soap General Hospital, to sing the song for Robin Scorpio and her AIDS-afflicted boyfriend Stone Cates.