Babyface

Released: September 18, 2007

Songwriter: James Taylor

Producer: Babyface

[Verse 1]
You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
So tell me how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool

One thing can lead to another
It doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, and sister and brother
If it feels nice, don't think twice, yeah

[Chorus]
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will (do as I say, oh)
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

[Verse 2]
You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you're all by yourself alone?

Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeeky wheel
Always getting the grease, Oh

[Chorus]
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will (do as I say)
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

[Bridge]
Oh no, oh oh, yeah
No no, no, no no no
Shower shower shower shower, yeah
Oh, spread a little love
If you know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
(Show them the way you feel)
Shower the people you love with love
(Come on, come on)
Show them the way that you feel
(Oh yeah, oh yeah)

[Outro]
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

Shower the people...

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (born April 10, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Grammy Award-winning producer, singer, and songwriter responsible for a string of hits in the 1980s and 1990s. He has written and produced more than 20 number-one hits and won 11 Grammys—including three for Producer of the Year—for his work with Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, and Toni Braxton, as well as his own work as an artist.

Babyface got his nickname from funk legend Bootsy Collins after joining his backing band in the 1970s. He joined the group Manchild in the late ‘70s—a group that also included his frequent collaborator Daryl Simmons—before moving out West and working with the group The Deele in the early 1980s, forming a bond with his bandmate and future production partner L.A. Reid. After producing the hit “Two Occasions” for The Deele, L.A. & Babyface broke off and became one of the biggest superproducer duos in R&B, rivaling the hits of fellow superproducer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

L.A. & ‘Face had their hands in a string of #1 R&B hits in the late '80s and early '90s from artists such as Pebbles (“Girlfriend”), Karyn White (“Superwoman”), The Whispers (“Rock Steady”), Johnny Gill (“My, My, My”) and many more. They were also instrumental in the success of post-New Edition era Bobby Brown as they produced his #1 hits “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Every Little Step,” “On Our Own,” and “Humpin' Around.” They made history with Boyz II Men in 1992 as they wrote and produced “End of the Road,” which spent a record-breaking 14 consecutive weeks atop the pop chart.

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