Song Lyric Sunday | “Neither One of Us” – Gladys Knight & the Pips
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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “fear.”
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It’s my first time repeating a song in the challenge. I posted this one back at the end of January as a “goodbye” song, but even as I considered other songs for fear, this Grammy-winning hit wouldn’t go away.
Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) by Gladys Knight & the Pips released on December 26, 1972 on Motown’s Soul Records and became one of their biggest hit singles to date and was also the last single the group released prior to them leaving Motown for Buddah Records in February 1973.
On March 17, 1973, the song reached number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart, staying there for four consecutive weeks. Due to the song’s strong crossover appeal, it eventually peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, with Vicki Lawrence’s The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (another Song Lyric Sunday feature) blocking it from number one. However, it went number one on the U.S. Record World and Cashbox charts. It also crossed over to the adult contemporary chart, peaking at number 15. Worldwide, it was also successful, peaking at number 9 in France, number 11 in Canada and number 31 in the UK.
Can you say H-I-T?
The video is from a Soul Train appearance and the Pips are just so, so smooth!
Enjoy!
See my Song Lyric Sunday selection on Nesie’s Place.
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Neither One of Us
by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Written by Jim Weatherly
It’s sad to think we’re not gonna make it
And it’s gotten to the point
Where we just can’t fake it
For some ungodly reason
We just won’t let it dieI guess neither one of us
Neither one of us wants to be the first to say good-bye
I keep wondering
Wondering
What I’m gonna do without you
And I guess you must be wondering the same thing too
So we go on
Go on together
Living a lie
Because neither one of us
Neither one of us wants to be the first to say good-bye
Every time I find the nerve
Every time I find the nerve to say I’m leaving, old memories
Those old memories get in my way
Lord knows it’s only me
Heaven knows it’s only me
That I’m deceiving
When it comes to saying good-bye
That’s a simple word that I just cannot say
There can be no way
There can be no way
This can have a happy ending
No, no
So we just go on
Hurting and pretending
Convincing ourselves to give it just one more try
Because neither one of us
Neither one of us wants to be the first to say
Neither one of us wants to be the first to say
Neither one of us wants to be the first to say
Farewell my love
Goodbye
Compiled from SongFacts.com, Genius Lyrics, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google.
