You'll Never Find

As long as you live
Someone who loves you tender like I do
You'll never find, no matter where you search
Someone who cares about you the way I do

Whoa, I'm not braggin' on myself, baby
But I'm the one who loves you
And there's no one else, no-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh one else

You'll never find, it'll take the end of all time
Someone to understand you like I do
You'll never find the rhythm, the rhyme
All the magic we shared, just us two

Whoa, I'm not tryin' to make you stay, baby
But I know some how, some day, some way
You are (you're gonna miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh (you're gonna miss my lovin')
Late in the midnight hour, baby (you're gonna miss my lovin')
When it's cold outside (you're gonna miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove

You'll never find another love like mine
Someone who needs you like I do
You'll never see what you've found in me
You'll keep searching and searching your whole life through
Whoa, I don't wish you no bad luck, baby
But there's no ifs and buts or maybes

You're gonna, You're gonna miss (miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin')
I know you're gonna my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin')
You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh (you're gonna miss my lovin')
Late in the midnight hour, baby (you're gonna miss my lovin')
When it gets real cold outside (you're gonna miss my lovin')
I know, I know that you are gonna miss my lo-o-ove

Let me tell you that you're gonna miss my lovin'
Yes you will, baby (you're gonna miss my lovin')
When I'm long gon
I know, I know, I know that you are gonna miss

We will miss your voice, Lou, but your legacy will continue on.
An Evening of Stars, started by Lou Rawls, has raised over $250M for the United Negro College Fund and will be broadcast on KRON this Friday evening.

I love the lyrics in this song. It conveys the way I feel about someone in my own life. It reminds me of a film I reviewed on this blog, After Sunset, where two people meet up ten years later and realize that a special connection they had was a lot more rare and valuable then they originally thought. But, what if one of them did realize at the time how special it was and had to watch the other one dither around for ten years waiting for them to figure it out?

Well, you'd say something like Lou does here. Hey, get a clue. You think you're gonna find this again, cause you lucked out and don't appreciate that you really won the lottery. It's like winning the Oscar at a young age or something, you haven't really worked long, it just sort of comes your way. It's only later, when it goes away, you realize what you had. Like that Joni Mitchell song Big Yellow Taxi, "Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone".

Well, now Lou is gone, and we will definitely miss him. And, if you didn't appreciate him while he was here... there's always an upcoming biopic.