Kenny Loggins

Dove rise and fly
Over me to the sea
Love hears her cry
Wait for me, wait for me

If you believe in me
I will believe in what will be
We want the world
You've only dreamed of
The promise of our seasons
Give us the future, please
That's all we need of you

Running in circles
Desperate we hold
To yours and mine
Using our bodies
Closing our hearts and eyes

But, oh no, open the door
And let the wind blow
Take my hand
Together we stand
In the eye of the hurricane

If you believe in me
I will believe in what will be
We want the world
You've only dreamed of
The promise of our seasons
Give us the future, please
That's all we need of you

Every nation
Every woman, child and man
Comes on a moment
Where they must
Take a stand

Then, oh no, forget what you know
Just let the wind blow
And blown apart
You open your heart
And that's when anything can be

If you believe in me
I will believe in what will be
We want the world
You've only dreamed of
The promise of our seasons
Give us the future, please
That's all we need of you

Out of control
Out of my mind at last
Into my dreams
We sail away

If you believe in me
I will believe in what will be
We want the world
You've only dreamed of
The promise of our seasons
Give us the future, please
That's all we need of you

Whoa, sing it children
(If you believe in me)
Got to believe
(I will believe in what will be)
Tell 'em what you want
(We want the world
You've only dreamed of)
World you've only dreamed of
(The promise of our seasons)
(Give us the future please)
(That's all we need of you)
That's all we ever really need
Everybody in the world
Every boy and girl

If you believe in me
I will believe in what will be
(Everybody listen)
We want the world
You've only dreamed of
The promise of our seasons
Give us the future please
That's all we need of you

You got to believe

If you believe in me
I will believe
If you believe in me
I will believe
If you believe in me
I will believe
If you believe in me
I will believe

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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