Kenny Loggins

I go to bed by midnight
I wake up again at 4:00
I read a while
Then try to sleep some more
But by 6:00 AM I?m gone again
Lost in the logic of despair
Cause you just can?t reason with someone
Who ain?t even there
I been right about the reasons
This bein? right is getting nowhere
And it?s time for movin? on

I?m letting go of the anger
I been holding in my heart
I?m letting go of the bitterness
That?s tearin? me apart
It?s time to give us both the forgiveness
I couldn?t give before
I don?t want to hate you anymore

I loved you for your honesty
Now I hate you for your lies
Still I just don?t see the wisdom in goodbye
So I?ll put my fears in a letter of tears
I guess I never intended to send
The future?s hard to believe in if I can?t even see the end
There are no easy answers
It?s just a fact of life
You know somebody?s always leavin?
Somebody?s always left behind

I?m letting go of the anger
I been holding in my heart
I?m letting go of the bitterness
That?s tearin? me apart
It?s time to give us both the forgiveness
I couldn?t give before
I don?t want to hate you anymore

One by one and day by day I?m getting? stronger
It ain?t about you any longer
It?s about tryin? to save my soul

I don?t want to hate you anymore
Argue or debate you
I don?t want to hate you anymore

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, WA in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, CA when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late ‘60s he was based in Pasadena, studying at Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade, Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of “Danny’s Song,” a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina. He also spent time with a short-lived group called Second Helping, and was a member of the stage incarnation of the Electric Prunes during a later phase of that group’s history.

Loggins was proficient on the guitar and piano, but it was his songwriting that allowed him to make his first lasting impression on the music industry. He took a job as a staff writer for Wingate Music, for $100.00 a week, and later that year four of his songs ended up on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy. This event was particularly fortuitous, as that album was the first release by the newly reconstituted version of the group, and included what proved to be their biggest hit, “Mr. Bojangles.” The presence of the latter helped make Uncle Charlie one of the group’s biggest selling long-players; and the exposure generated a second hit in the form of Loggins’ own “House at Pooh Corner.”

The success of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recordings brought Loggins to the attention of former Poco member Jim Messina, who was working as a staff producer at CBS. It was Messina’s intention to produce Loggins' debut album, but he also ended up playing and singing on the record, and it worked out so well that the two ended up in a duo. Loggins & Messina were among the most popular folk-based soft rock acts of the first half of the ‘70s and enjoyed a four-year string of successful albums.

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