AL GREEN - CALL ME (COME BACK HOME) LYRICS

Call Me (Come Back Home) Lyrics

(written by: Al Green, W. Mitchell, A. Jackson)

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Call me...
Call me...
Call me...
What a beautiful time we had together,
now it's getting late and we must leave each other,
just remember the time we had,
and how right I tried to be,
it's all in a day's work,
Call me...
Losing your love, acting foolishly,
go on and take your time,
you're already losing me,
love is a long ways from here,
'cause it's all in the way you feel,
If love is real, come to me.
Call me...
Call me...
Call me... (Come back home)
The best thing I can do is give you your love,
that you're going away feeling as free as a dove,
And if you find you's a long way from home,
and if somebody's doin' you wrong,
Just call me baby... (Come back home)
Call me...
Call me...
Call me... (Come back home)

...Ain't things going right.
It's all in a day's work
Call me...
You can call me when you're feelin' sad, baby...

It's all in a day's work...
Come back home...

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Brotha_Of_Soul

17/02/2004 07:48:01

Beginning with horn stabs, a pulsing, staccato string note, and a haunting female background vocal line, "Call Me (Come Back Home)" encompasses all of the elements that made the early-'70s Al Green and Willie Mitchell productions so uniquely great: intimate, dry sounds; a small string section on one side of the stereo and a horn section on the other; gospel-informed call-and-response vocals; and, most of all, the legendary Hi Rhythm Section. The production is well-crafted to the point of seeming minimalist, an updating of the classic raw Memphis country-soul sound of the '60s and a forerunner to the smooth urban sounds of the '70s and beyond. Above it all, Green sings with a simmering passion that is kept in check until just the right moments, when he unleashes his devastating falsetto. Green's narrator on the song is a ladies man saying all the right things during an amorous encounter with a new woman friend, adopting the confident philosophy of that which you love, set free, and it will come back to you. In this case, he restrains himself from trying to push a lovely evening too far: "What a beautiful time we had together/Now it's getting late and we must leave each other/Just remember the time we had and how right I tried to be/It's all in a day's work/Call me...Love is a long way from here/I tell you it's all in the way you feel/If your love is real, come to me." Charles Hodges swoops a chord out of the B-3 organ to turn the song around a little bridge back into the verse. His brothers — Mabon "Teenie" on guitar and Leroy on bass — and drummer Howard Grimes lay down a trademark steady and mellow groove, with jazzy chords over the R&B backbeat. "Call Me (Come Back Home)" was one of three Top Ten hits from the 1973 record Call Me, which was the fifth record from the Green- Mitchell partnership; by the time of its recording, the already smooth and successful formula they had been working was seamless. The songwriting was becoming stronger as well, with higher and more consistent peaks. This song displays a master of the genre at the top of his game.

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