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Hall & Oates - So Close

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Album: Change of Season
Released: 1990

So Close Lyrics

They met on the dance floor in the old high school gym,
He fell like a rock, she kinda liked him.
And his heart beat like thunder, as they moved cross the floor,
When the music was over, she slipped out of his arms, and out the door.

Yeah a man loves a woman, but he can't understand,
Why she's sad when she stares, at the ring on her hand.
Or she sits in some club, where the long shadows fall.
Drops a coin in the jukebox, not the phone on the wall.

So Close, yet so far away.
So close, yet so far away.
We believe in tomorrow, maybe more than today.
We're so close, so close, yet so far away.

Some people think, if you really believe,
That's what you need to solve all the mysteries.
Yea I know someone, who just heads for the sun,
She says "I don't want to be wise, I just want to stay young".

So close, yet so far away.
So close, yet so far away.
We believe in tomorrow, though we're stuck in today.
Baby we're so close, so close, yet so far away.

There's a restless look in your eye tonight.
There's a secret hurt in my heart.
And the dream that pulls us together girl,
Is a dream, that's gonna tear us, tear us apart.

There's a restless look in your eye tonight,
Oh, are you lookin' for some way out of here.
We gotta fight to keep it together girl,
For the dream, that keeps us,

So close, yet so far away.
So close, yet so far away.
Who would of thought girl that we'll end up this way.
Getting' so close, so close,
So far away.

We're living in a dream world.
Yet we're livin' today girl.
Just you and me baby.
Gotta try, gotta try, gotta try, gotta try, gotta try, gotta try, gotta try.

Writer/s: Green, George Michael / Giles, Rick / Hall, Daryl F
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, HORI PRO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
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So Close

The biggest Hall & Oates hit of the '90s, this song explores the vagaries of love: how we can be so close to the perfect union, but overcome with longing when it just isn't right.

Daryl Hall wrote the original version of this song with George Green, who was the co-writer on some of John Mellencamp's hits, including "Hurts So Good" and "Rain On The Scarecrow." Hall & Oates recorded an acoustic version of the song that ended up being used as the B-side of the single (listed as "So Close (Unplugged)"), but their record company thought the song had more hit potential with full instrumentation, and called in Danny Kortchmar to produce it, who brought along some high-profile help: Jon Bon Jovi.

Kortchmar, who played guitar on some of the biggest albums of the '70s (Jackson Browne's Running On Empty, Carole King's Tapestry), had moved into production work and recently finished co-producing Jon's Blaze of Glory album when he got the call to work on "So Close."

"We were just having a ball in the studio," Kortchmar said of the Blaze of Glory sessions. "So when I got the call to produce this single, I said, 'Jonny, what do you say, let's do this.' So he said, 'Sure, man. Great. I love Hall & Oates. Let's keep going.'"

Kortchmar and Bon Jovi burnished the song into a hit and made a few changes to its structure. Always an astute businessman, Jon asked for composer credits on the song for him and Kortchmar, which were granted. The hit version of the song is thus credited to Hall/Green/Kortchmar/Bon Jovi.

Hall & Oates - Say It Isn't So

Hall & Oates - Say It Isn't So Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rock 'n Soul Part 1
Released: 1983

Say It Isn't So Lyrics

Say it
Say It Isn't So
Say it
Say it isn't so

Say it isn't so painful to tell me that you're dissatisfied
Last time I asked you I really got a lame excuse
I know that you lied
Now wicked things can happen you see 'em goin' down in war
But when you play in a quiet way that bites it even more

Say it
Tell me what you want yeah I'll do it baby I promise right now
Say it
Who propped you up when you were stopped low motivation
Had you on the ground

I know your first reaction you slide away hide away goodbye
But if there's a doubt maybe I can give out a thousand reasons why
You have to say it isn't so

(It isn't so) I say it isn't so
(It isn't so) I say it isn't so
(It isn't so) said it isn't so
(It isn't so) oh no

Say it
We like to be the strangers at the party, two rebels in a shell
Say it
You like to move with the best of them you know we move so well
Don't need someone to lean on, I know that there's an open door
But if I'm faced with being replaced I want you even more
So baby say it isn't so

(It isn't so) say it isn't so
(It isn't so) I say it isn't so
(It isn't so) said it isn't so
(It isn't so) oh no

Say it
Say it isn't so
Say it
Say it isn't so

Say it
Say it isn't so

Why you gonna go, do you have to say
Do you wanna go ooh ooh baby
Say it isn't

(Say)
Say say say it isn't so
(Say it isn't so)
(Say it isn't)
Why do you have to say it isn't
(Say it isn't)
(Say it isn't)
(Stop, say it isn't)
I know it's so hard for you
(Say it isn't)
So hard
(Say it isn't)
Don't say baby
(Stop, say it isn't)
There must be some other way
Don't have to
(Say it isn't)
Some other way
(Stop, say it isn't)
You gonna have to say
(Say it isn't)
(Say it isn't)
Don't have to say
(Stop, say it isn't)
You know I won't make you

Writer/s: HALL, DARYL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC
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Say It Isn't So Song Chart

By 1983, Hall & Oates was one of the most successful acts in America; stars of radio and MTV with five #1 hits behind them. Their newfound fame, however, came with a sense of alienation as they played to the masses.

In our interview with Daryl Hall , he explained that this feeling was the impetus for the song. "The idea was that John and I were outside of things," he said. "You know, that line, "We like to be the strangers at the party, two rebels in a shell," that had a lot to do with John and I's relationship to the world. And I think that was coming out of a combination of people's perceptions of us at that time – we were getting a lot of flack from various things. And being on the road, and feeling sort of separate from the outside world – because we were sort of in this 'road bubble,' and also the bubble of our success."

Daryl Hall wrote this song on his own. Along with "Adult Education," it was one of two new songs released on their compilation album Rock 'n Soul Part 1.

Say, this song sure spent a lot of time at #2 on the Hot 100. Four weeks. The song that held it off the top spot all four weeks: "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson. Hall & Oates had six #1 singles - this was their only #2.