Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again

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The title track from Steve Winwood's 1986 Grammy award winning Album "Back In The High Life" According to co-writer Will Jennings... "We wrote those songs in the fall of '84, and it was a long spell before he got in the studio in New York. We had 'Higher Love' and several other songs, including 'The Finer Things.' And then it was toward the end of my stay over there and we still needed some other songs. I had 'Back in the High Life Again' in this book that I carry with me of titles. I pulled that out and I suddenly found the rest of the song, and I wrote that in about 30 minutes, and left it with Steve to put a melody to. So this is in '84. And then I went back to California, and it was a year, I guess, before he went in the studio, sometime in '85. I called one day and talked to Russ Titelman who was producing the album. They were doing it in New York. I asked him how it was going, and he said, 'Oh it's going great.' He said 'Higher Love' came out great and 'The Finer Things.' I asked him how 'Back In The High Life' would come out. There was this little pause, and he said, 'Steve hasn't shown me that song.' So turns out that Steve had not written the music to it yet and he at that time was going through a divorce. And because of the divorce, his wife got everything in the house, this big house in England. So he came up from London and went out to this house, which he still lives in and he had for years before he was married, and everything was gone, except there was a mandolin over in the corner of the living room. It was winter and it was dreary. He went over and picked up the mandolin, and he already had the words in his head, and that's when he wrote the melody. He went back and not only cut a big hit which still is played so much today, but it was the title track of the album. And if I hadn't asked about it, it would have just gone by, so that's one that was saved at the last minute." Says Jennings, "You just need to get the feel of what they want to do, where they're coming from and what their life has been. The soulfulness comes into writing the truth of the singer. If you're writing with or particularly for a singer, you try to get inside them." - Singer/ song writer James Taylor contributed background vocal. -The video was shot at the Southern Railway station in Manassas, Virginia. -The late Warren Zevon did a low-key, acoustic cover of this song on his 2000 album "Life'll Kill Ya". For more info check his official websites http://www.stevewinwood.com http://www.myspace.com/16574449 Lyrics: "It used to seem to me That my life ran on too fast And I had to take it slowly Just to make the good parts last But when youre born to run Its so hard to just slow down So dont be surprised to see me Back in that bright part of town Ill be back in the high life again All the doors I closed one time will open up again Ill be back in the high life again All the eyes that watched me once will smile and take me in And Ill drink and dance with one hand free Let the world back into me And on Ill be a sight to see Back in the high life again You used to be the best To make life be life to me And I hope that youre still out there And youre like you used to be Well have ourselves a time And well dance til the morning sun And well let the good times come in And we wont stop til were done Well be back in the high life again All the doors I closed one time will open up again Well be back in the high life again All the eyes that watched us once will smile and take us in And well drink and dance with one hand free And have the world so easily And oh well be a sight to see Back in the high life again Well be back in the high life again All the doors I closed one time will open up again Well be back in the high life again All the eyes that watched us once will smile and take us in And well drink and dance with one hand free And have the world so easily And oh well be a sight to see Back in the high life again"

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