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The Rest of Your LifeKenny Loggins

Walkin' on my own
Absolutely free
Solitary life
The only life for me
Midnight caf‚
Dinner alone
Independent heart
Is all I've ever known

Oh I believe
I had no one to lose
And nobody fooled but me

Fire in the storm
Rainbow in the night
Lightning on the sea
Heaven in your eyes
Never before
The magic of night
It happened in my arms
Right before my eyes

Oh, now I believe
There's a god watching over me
From up here, I can see the rest of my life
It's got directions starting over
So hold me, it's destiny
Cause from tonight I know
You know the rest of your life is mine
How long can I be this sure
Only for the rest of your life

Self-assured before
Had it figured out
All I didn't know
Is what it's all about
You walked into my world
Then it came alive
I never knew before
Why I survived

Oh, now I believe
There's a god watching over me
From up here, I can see the rest of my life
You're giving me directions starting over
So hold me, it's destiny
Cause from tonight I know
You know the rest of your life is mine

Whoa, oh whoa
Whoa, I know it's over
The past is over, ooh yeah
You can't go back to sleep
Once you've seen what you have seen
And know what you know about love

Over
Hold me, it's destiny
And from tonight I know
You know the rest of your life is mine
How long can I be this sure
Only for the rest of your life

Kenny Loggins

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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