After Tonight Lyrics
La-da-da
[Verse 1]
I look at you looking at me
Feels like a feeling meant to be
And as your body moves with mine
It's like I'm lifted out of time
And time again
Patiently I've waited for this moment to arrive
[Chorus]
After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled me closer?
After you go
Will you return to love me
After tonight begins to fade?
[Verse 2]
I feel your touch caressing me
This feeling's all I'll ever need
With every kiss from your sweet lips
It's like I'm drifting out of
Time alone will tell
If you feel the way I feel
When I look in your eyes
After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled me closer?
After you go
Will you return to love me
After tonight begins to fade?
[Verse 3]
Time and time and time again (Time and time again)
So patiently I've waited for this moment to arrive
[Chorus]
After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled me closer?
After you go
Baby, will you return to love me
After tonight begins to fade?
[Outro]
After tonight begins to fade
After all, after all, after all
When the morning comes
When the morning comes
After tonight begins to fade (After tonight)
Begins to fade
About
“After Tonight” is a song recorded by Mariah Carey for her seventh studio album, Rainbow (1999).
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According to the New York Daily News on November 1, 1999, Mariah had hoped to feature a duet with Luis Miguel on her “Rainbow,” album, but the collaboration didn’t go so well. Sources said that Miguel was so unhappy with their recording of “After Tonight” that he took a scissors to a tape of it and sent the pieces back to producer David Foster..(
) Foster, who co-wrote the song with Carey and Diane Warren, insisted the tape did not come back to him as confetti. He also maintained the duet fizzled for musical reasons, not because of a romantic clash:
Luis didn’t like the end result. The song was written just for Mariah. I had Luis and Mariah record it several different times, but it never sounded right. So she ended up doing it by herself.
Carey says “After Tonight” just wasn’t in Miguel’s key:
To change it, I would have had to redo my vocals, and I didn’t have time. We’re not gonna get into a fight over it. Why?
That same day, Carey was on The View and stated in response to the above article:
They wrote some stupid item in the paper today about something and I was like, ‘whatever,’ that we weren’t together because we were supposed to do a duet or something. And you know, to me it’s like, I don’t care, I’d rather not do a duet and have a good relationship. It’s not about exploiting the relationship to do a duet – who cares? It’s like, if it works, great, if not, be happy.
- 1.Heartbreaker
- 3.Bliss
- 4.How Much
- 5.After Tonight
- 6.X-Girlfriend
- 10.Crybaby
- 11.Did I Do That?
- 12.Petals
