Yvonne Elliman - I Don't Know How To Love Him
Yvonne Elliman - I Don't Know How To Love Him


Yvonne Elliman - I Don't Know How To Love Him Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Jesus Christ Superstar
Released: 1971

I Don't Know How To Love Him Lyrics


I Don't Know How To Love Him.
What to do, how to move him.
I've been changed, yes really changed.
In these past few days, when I've seen myself,

I seem like someone else.
I don't know how to take this.
I don't see why he moves me.
He's a man. He's just a man.

And I've had so many men before,
In very many ways,
He's just one more.
Should I bring him down?

Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love,
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I'd come to this.

What's it all about?
Don't you think it's rather funny,
I should be in this position.
I'm the one who's always been

So calm, so cool, no lover's fool,
Running every show.
He scares me so.
I never thought I'd come to this.

What's it all about?
Yet, if he said he loved me,
I'd be lost. I'd be frightened.
I couldn't cope, just couldn't cope.

I'd turn my head. I'd back away.
I wouldn't want to know.
He scares me so.
I want him so.

I love him so.

Writer/s: PIPERNO, MARIO / FERRI, RICCARDO / PICOTTO, MAURO / REMONDINI, ANDREA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Don't Know How To Love Him
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote this for the Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar,. Rice and Webber discovered Yvonne Elliman, originally from Hawaii, at the "Pheasantry" folk club on Kings Road in Chelsea in 1969. They offered her the role of Mary Magdalene in the Rock Opera.
  • Elliman played the Magdalene role in the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar and won a Golden Globe award for her performance.
  • Elliman appeared in the Broadway version, where she met Bill Oakes, president of RSO Records and married him. Oakes introduced her to Eric Clapton, who asked her to sing backup vocals on "I Shot the Sheriff." She became part of Clapton's band and stayed with him for five years.
  • Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees wrote a couple of songs for Elliman: "Love Me," and "If I Can't Have You." She performed "If I Can't Have You" for the movie soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, her greatest commercial success. It was Elliman's only #1 hit.