Kenny Loggins

Released: August 10, 1993

Featuring: Shanice

Songwriter: Tom Snow Kenny Loggins

Producer: Kenny Loggins

Verse 1
[Kenny]
I run out of breath and start to shake
I love you with all my heart can take
I hold you beside me in my sleep
And long to be dreaming endlessly

We've come into a place in time
Where I am yours and you're mine
A circle filled with love

Chorus
[Kenny Loggins & Shanice]
If you come away with me
I can show you ecstasy
Close your eyes and we will lead
And love will follow
Take a chance and hold my hand
I know you'll understand
We'll find a special land

[Kenny]
And love will follow
Oh oh oh babe, hey

Verse 2
[Shanice]
A smile on your lips and in your eyes
A stranger adrift in paradise
You touch me and slowly move away
Take all of the night you need to take, babe
Just wait a little while and see
What you mean to me
I've waited all my life, oh

Chorus
[Kenny Loggins & Shanice]
If you come away with me
I can show you ecstasy
Close your eyes and we will lead
And love will follow
Take a chance and hold my hand
I know you'll understand
We'll find a special land
And love will follow, oh

Bridge
(If this was just a chance of make-believe
You'd never feel it this way)

[Shanice]
I've always wanted to love somebody
As much as I, I'm wanting you now

(Instrumental Break)

[Kenny Loggins]
We've come into a place in time
Where I am yours and you're mine
A circle filled with love

[Kenny Loggins & Shanice]
If you come away with me
I can show you ecstasy
Close your eyes and we will lead
And love will follow
Take a chance and hold my hand
I know you'll understand
We'll find a special land
And love will follow

[Kenny Loggins]
Oh, my girl I swear I love you so
Tonight you're gonna know
And everywhere we go
Love will follow

[Shanice]
Use your wings to fly away
And come with me today
Tonight we'll lead the way

[Kenny Loggins & Shanice]
And love will follow

[Kenny Loggins]
I keep...

[Kenny Loggins & Shanice]
Holding on
All night long
It's where you belong, my baby
Holding on

[Kenny Loggins]
Hold on

Holding on
All night long
It's where you belong, my baby
Holding on

[Shanice]
Hold on, oh

Holding on
All night long
It's where you belong, my baby
Holding on

[Kenny Loggins]
I keep holding on to you

Holding on
All night long
It's where you belong, my baby
Holding on

[Shanice]
Holding, holding, oh, holding

Holding on
All night long
It's where you belong, my baby
Holding on

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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