Come Away With Me Lyrics
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
[Verse 2]
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies
[Bridge]
And I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come
[Verse 3]
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Outro]
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me
About
This is the eponymous track from Jones' debut album. She penned the song herself. Though the album won 8 Grammys, and the song itself sold 20 million copies, it didn’t chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Jones discussed the making of this song with author Bill Demain:
I hadn’t written since I was about 16, and I’d only written two songs back then and they were so bad that I just gave up. But I’d come back from seeing Tony Scherr play and I had seen Jesse and Richard probably, and all that came together in my mind. I had sent for my acoustic guitar in Texas, which is a really crappy guitar, and I wrote it on that. The chords are really simple. It came out in 10 or 15 minutes, and I wrote it down. I didn’t have a tape recorder at that time, so I was nervous that I was going to forget it… It’s difficult to get to a place where songs come out that quickly, but it’s so great when they do. The next day, I wrote ‘What Am I to You?’ the very same way.
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