乐坛给予他[开创灵魂乐的先锋]的定位,乐迷推崇他是[当代最伟大的流行艺人]、[最真实的美国音乐原味],听过他那综合了节奏蓝调与福音感觉的灵魂乐嗓音,你会发现,最虔诚的灵魂乐莫过于此。
这首歌的背景:Ray Charles在成名后整日留恋在女色中,不停地与各种女性交往,而将妻子至于不顾。最后妻子伤心离去。直到那一刻,Ray Charles才发现,自己原来根本没有爱过其他女人,他真正爱的,只有他妻子一人而已。于是,Ray Charles绝望地写下这首歌,作为对这段感情的悼念。
歌词:
what i got to do to make you love me?
what i got to do to make you care?
what do i do when lightning strikes me?
and i wake to find that you're not there?
what i got to do to make you want me?
what i got to do to be heard?
what do i say when it's all over?
sorry seems to be the hardest word.
it's sad, so sad
it's a sad, sad situation.
and it's getting more and more absurd.
it's sad, so sad
why can't we talk it over?
oh it seems to me
that sorry seems to be the hardest word.
what do i do to make you want me?
what i got to do to be heard?
what do i say when it's all over?
sorry seems to be the hardest word.
it's sad, so sad
it's a sad, sad situation.
and it's getting more and more absurd.
it's sad, so sad
why can't we talk it over?
oh it seems to me
that sorry seems to be the hardest word.
what i got to do to make you love me?
what i got to do to be heard?
what do i do when lightning strikes me?
what have i got to do?
what have i got to do?
when sorry seems to be the hardest word.