Song Lyric Sunday | “For You” – Kenny Lattimore

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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 “plan.” 

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I must be in a wedding-song mood this week as I stretch the theme out again to include this romantic ballad.

In 1997’s For You, artist Kenny Lattimore pledges his love and devotion… and a plan for life together to the woman he loves.

Written by Kenny Lerum, a high school classmate of Lattimore, the song reached number six on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard) and number thirty-three on the US Billboard Hot 100.  For You received a Grammy nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards but lost to R. Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly.

It’s simply a beautiful song.

Enjoy!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection on Nesie’s Place.

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For You

by Kenny Lattimore

Written by Kenny Lerum

For you I’d give a lifetime of stability

Anything you want of me

Nothing is impossible

For you there are no words or ways to show my love

Or all the thoughts I’m thinking of

Cause this life is no good alone

Since we’ve become one

I’ve made a change

Everything I do now makes sense

All roads end

All I do is for you

 

For you I share the cup of love that overflows

And anyone who knows us knows

I would change all faults I have

For you there is no low or high or in between

Of my heart that you haven’t seen

Cause I share all I have and am

Nothing I’ve said’s hard to understand

All I feel I feel deeper still

And always will

All this love is for you

 

Every note that I play

Every word I might say

Every melody I feel

Are only for you and your appeal

Every page that I write

Every day of my life

Would not be filled without the things

That my love for you now brings

 

For you I make the promise of fidelity

Now and for eternity

No one could replace this vow

For you I’d take your hand and heart

And everything

And add to them a wedding ring

Cause this life is no good alone

Since we’ve become one you’re all I’ve known

If this feeling should leave I’d die

And here’s why

All I am is for you

 

Everything I do now makes sense

All roads end

All I do

Is for you

Only for you

Compiled from SongFacts.com,  Genius Lyrics, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google.