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SPEAK TO THE SKY
(words and music by Rick Springfield)
Speak To The Sky when ever things
go wrong
And you'll know you're not talkin' to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there
Speak To The Sky 'cause things can get ya down
And you'll know when you're talkin' to the Lord, to the Lord
The world will look better than before
And if I stumble and it seems that I am blind
Or if the road I'm on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesn't always rhyme
I always try to find some time to
Speak To The Sky and tell you how I feel
And you know sometimes what I say ain't right
It's all right, cause I Speak To The Sky every night
And if I stumble and it seems that I am blind
Or if the road I'm on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesn't always rhyme
I always try to find some time to
Speak To The Sky and tell you how I feel
And you know sometimes what I say ain't right
It's all right, cause I Speak To The Sky every night
Speak To The Sky when ever things go wrong
And you know you're not talkin' to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there
And the world will look better from up there.
And the world will look better from up there.
(total playing time:
2:41 )
Song Facts:
First charted in the United States on August 5, 1972, Speak to the Sky reached as
high as number 14 on the Pop Album Charts and remained on the charts for thirteen weeks.
According to the TNN special: The Life and Times of Rick Springfield - Speak to the Sky
was written about Rick's Dad.
Speak to the Sky appears on:
Beginnings The Best of Rick Springfield, Greatest Hits, Speak to the Sky
(import), Anthology (import), Speak to The Sky, Legendary, Platinum &
Gold, and Anthology (written in rock)
Rick has performed this song a few times in concert including Harris, MI 6/17/00 and
Milwaukee, WI 11/15/00
Rick says:
I was Seventeen when I
wrote that. I think I was leaning toward a country career...... - Milwaukee, WI 11/15/00
It was just a song I wrote because my mother said "why don't you write a happy song, son". I'd been writing all this stuff about suicide and love triads and so I wrote a happy song.
_Hot Ones Radio Show, 1984.
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According to US
The very very first time I heard this song, I was amazed. Dumbstruck. Speechless.
Now, I admitted previously that I didn't hear this song until the late 80's. So
I was used to the Rick who sang JG, DTTS, IDEFY... not the hee-haw,
twangin' sounding, head a'swayin to and fro sound of this song. I didn't like it. Not
one bit. I was ashamed in mixed company of it. Funny thing though, that maturity. I kinda like it now. I think it grew on me :-)
I really couldn't believe that this got radio play in 1972. Granted, I don't
remember ANY radio play in '72, but I do know in my household the stuff my
parents were playing did not sound like STTS at all. The simplicity of the
lyrics also got to me, it sounded like (and still does to me) a child's song.
Of course, comparing my review of Mother Can You Carry Me now to this song, I
see I'm still on the same theme. My youngest child claims this is her favorite
Rick Springfield song. Sure makes adults do a double take to hear her claim
that one. She has a tape that I made her of her favorite songs, and this is
the only Rick song on it. (which I pointed out to certain family members who
believe I'm brainwashing my child into a RS fan)
Back to listening to this...the whole gaiety of the music still rubs me the
wrong way. But the lyrics are good. Especially for kids. I had never seen Rick sing (perform) this song until 1999, when at the fan club luncheon in
Tucson, AZ. He played it quite enthusiastically...and miracle of miracles,
remembered all the words! (at that point, people were yelling out quite obscure
RS cuts for him to play, and he was having real hard time doing anything more
than the chorus of those songs) I agree with whomever said it earlier, that his
"older" voice sounds better singing this in my opinion. I also totally love
the facial expressions Rick makes during the sound check version of this song on
the Alive video. - Michelle P.
What
is that opening instrument in this song? Kind of sounds like a banjo to me. It somehow
doesn't make since to me that he came from Zoot, being the guitar player in a pretty hard
rocking band, and this is the music he released as a solo artists. I think some of the
songs may have been left over from what he wrote while in Zoot that they didn't want to
record.
Simplistically, this just seems to be saying that when things
aren't going right, say a prayer to God, and it'll help.
Rick did a pretty full version of this in Milwaukee in 2000, and
I really like the now version better. He tends to make fun of himself a little, and it's
absolutely adorable. - rlh
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