Reflections of My Life - Marmalade, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Reflections of My Life (Marmalade, The, 1969-1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-03-05. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Reflections of My Life" was Scotland's Marmalade's first entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970, and their only release in the USA that made it into the top 40 climbing to the #10 position (Whitburn, 2013). According to co-writer, Junior Campbell, "I came up with the song quite literally the night before the very first session . . . I had the tune and the chorus lyric and so the working title was “Take Me Back” . . . Dean [Ford, aka Thomas McAleese] worked on the verse lyric whilst we recorded the track" (nimrodfree, Youtube.com, Feb 12, 2020). The song has sold more than two million copies worldwide and "the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement in 1998 by BMI in attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the US alone" (carlinmusic.com, 2022). As an aside, I recorded a version of "Reflections of My Life" in 1979, and it is included on my second album, "Now . . . and Then" https://youtu.be/0-Z6oGYdpQw

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Lyrics:

The changing of sunlight to moonlight
Reflections of my life
Oh, how they fill my eyes

The greetings of people in trouble
Reflections of my life
Oh, how they fill my eyes

All, my sorrows
Sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home
All, my crying
Feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back to my own home

I'm changing, arranging
I'm changing
I'm changing everything
Everything around me

The world is
A bad place
A bad place
A terrible place to live
Oh, but I don't wanna to die

All, my sorrows
Sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home
All, my crying
Feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back to my own home

All, my sorrows
Sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home
All, my crying
Feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back to my own home